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Stack #18545
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anachronism | a chronical error in literature that places a person place, or event in an impossible historical context |
| assonance | close repitition of simalar vowel sounds |
| antithesis | a rhetorical figure in which sharpl opposing ideas are expressed within a balanced gramatical structure |
| alliteration | the use or repition or succession of words with the same initial letter or sound |
| allusion | referance to a familiar person or event often from litereature |
| analogy | the relation of one thing to something familiar |
| bathos | a sudden decent from the lofty to the ordinary or ridiculas |
| couplet | two succesive lines in poetry usually rhymed |
| cacophony | discordent sounds sometimes used in poetry for effect |
| conceit | a fanciful image especially an elaborate or starteling analogy |
| caesura | a pause or break in a line of verse |
| cadence | the natural rythem of language determined by it's inherentn alternation of stress or unstressed syllables |
| belles letres | literature, currently lighter writings or appreciative essays on the beuaties of litereature |
| elegy | a poetic lament |
| denouement | Literally "unknotted" the final unraveling of the plot following the climax |
| eupony | harmonious sounds often used in poetry for effect |
| prose | literary expression not marked by rhyme or metrical regularity |
| poetic license | the practice of violating rules, expectations, or conventions to acheive a desired effect |
| onomatopoeia | formation of a word by immatating the natural sound associated with the object of actions involved |
| paradox | an aparently contradictary statement that contains a truth that reconciles the contradiction |
| pathetic fallacy | the signing of human atributes to human nature |
| pathos | an element that evoks feelings of pity tenderness, and sympathy |
| palindrome | a word or sentence or goup of sentences that work the same way forward and backward |
| iamb | a metrical foot that contains one short or unstressed syllable preceeding one long or stressed sylable |
| motif | theme character or verbal pattern that recurs in literature or folklore |
| hyperbole | a deliberate overstatement or exageration used to create an effect |
| onomatopiea | writing technique that uses words to imitate sounds |
| inference | resonable conclusions drawn from clues provided by the writer |
| irony | an expresion of a meaning that contradicts the literal meaning |
| malapropism | a mistaken substitution of one word for another that sounds simalar generally with humerous effect |
| soliloquy | a dramatic monologue used to convey the thoughts of a character in a play |
| spoonerism | the transportation of the innitial sounds of two or more words, often with humorous results. Names for professor Spooner of Oxford who was famous for such transpositiond |
| spondee | a type of metrical foot with two stressed sylables |
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MaryTRobot
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