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Lang Arts 12
Literature and Composition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Romantics ~the Five I's (plus one) of Romanticism | Imagination Idealism Intuition Inspiration Individuality Into nature |
| couplet | two successive lines, usu. in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
| kenning | imaginative, metaphorical phrases used in place of a sngle noun |
| satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice |
| dialect | the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, ect. - involves spelling sounds, grammar, and pronunciation |
| litotes | an ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary |
| frame narrative | a lit. tech. that sometimes serves as a comparison piece to a story within a story |
| understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants |
| pathetic fallacy | personification: author (often by accident) gives human feelings of his characters to non human objects |
| inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject |
| transitive verb | a verb that needs a direct object to complete its meaning |
| intransitive verb | a verb that does not need a direct object to complete its meaning |
| archetype | a typical character, action, or situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature; universal symbol |
| fixed form | a poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, and villanelle |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that is further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, esp. a poem |
| metaphysical conceit | a unusual and elaborately sustained comparison between two dissimilar things that draws upon a wide range of knowledge from comparison to the esotoric, and its comparisons are elaborately rationalized |
| carpe diem | a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and should enjoy it before it ends |
| iambic trimeter | a meter or line that consists of three iambic feet |
| iambic tetrameter | a meter or a line that consists of four iambic feet |
| quatrain | a four line stanza; a four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme |
| catalexis | the truncation of a poetic line - truncated so that unstressed syllables drop from a line |
| allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history (pop-culture, ect.) that is assumed to be known |
| paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
| metaphysical poetry | highly intellectual poetry often focusing on a dramatic event and is often more argumentative in nature in that the poet is presenting through an intricate analogy |
| sonnet | a fixed form of fourteen (14) lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one or two main types |
| cathasis | a term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent, dead, or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply |
| scansion | annotating METER; the process of measuring verse , that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables dividing the lines into feet identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern |
| wit | elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused |
| foot | the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usu. contains one accented symbol and one or two unaccented syllables |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| rhymed verse | verse with two successive lines of verse of which the final words rhyme (conventionally aa bb cc) |
| iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
| pentameter | a metrical line containing five feet (always define what type of feet) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally detonating one kind of object or idea is used to suggest a likeness or analogy between another |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using word such as like, as, than appears, and seems |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by vocal imitation of sound associated with it |
| alliteration | repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in the same line |
| antecedent | the word or phrase to which a later pronoun refers (the noun before a pronoun) |
| irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result |
| antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes tow contrasting ideas |
| parallelism | recurrent syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect |
| iconoclastic | |
| conceit | A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language |
| non sequitur | A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before |
| iconoclastic | adj. attacking cherished traditions |
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AdrienneBronner
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