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Literary Terms #3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Setting | the place and time a story is set in |
| Theme | the main subject that is being discussed or described |
| Iambic Pantmeter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable |
| Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse |
| Verbal Irony | A difference between what is literally stated and what is applied (sarcasm, idioms) |
| Dramatic Irony | A contradiction between what the character thinks and says and what the audience knows to be true |
| Cosmic Irony | The suggestion that God or fate meddles with human lives |
| Mood and Tone | Mood: evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Tone: an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience |
| Static/ Dynamic | Static: Stays the same (personality doesn't change) Dynamic: opposite of static, beliefs or personalities change |
| Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes |
| End Rhyme | end rhyme is the rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Tragic Hero | a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat |
| Protagonist | A protagonist is the central character or leading figure |
| Flat/ Round | Flat: non developed characters Round: developed, more background information |
| Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme |
| Internal Rhyme | Internal rhyme is a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other |
| Foil | character that highlights another character (opposites) ex: Tybalt and Benvolio |
| Antagonist | the character or issue the main character faces (bad guy or could be something like nature) |
| Hamartia | a personal error in a protagonist’s personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. |
| Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. |
| Dialect | a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. |
| Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions |
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
| Repetition | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written |
| polysyndeton | the use of several conjunction in close succession, especially where they are not necessary |
| Epic Hero | the main character of an epic poem. Demonstrates traits that are valued by the society in which the epic poem originates |
| Anaphora | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of a successive clause |
| foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event |
| bildungsroman | a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character (coming of age novel) |
| asyndeton | the deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses |
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