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Modern Age Vocabular
Vocabulary Modern Age Poetry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allusion | a reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood |
| anticlimax | a plot twist that shifts a narrative away from the expected climax, undercuts readers' expectations, and often results in disappointment for the work's main character(s) |
| epigraph | a quotation at the start of a poem or work of prose |
| figurative language | language that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and personification for poetic effect rather than for precise, factual meaning; for example, "Her eyes are like stars" is figurative language, in contrast to the literal use of "stars" in "The |
| free indirect speech | a style of narration in which it is not clear whether readers are reading the thoughts of a character, of the narrator, or of a combination of character and narrator; also called free indirect discourse |
| imagery | language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, that makes readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination; for example, "the coal-black night," "the stinging cold," "the rapping and tapping of rain on the roof" |
| modernism | a literary movement that represented a purposeful break from traditional forms of expression and subject matter in favor of more modern ones |
| mood | the emotions or feelings that are conveyed in a literary work |
| persona | a character assumed by an author in a work of literature |
| personification | giving human qualities to a thing or abstraction; for example, "The kettle sang on the hearth," or "After the victory, freedom held its head high in the nation." |
| refrain | a phrase repeated at intervals throughout a work |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes made by the final words or sounds in the lines of a poem, typically designated by a different letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyme |
| Romantics | artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who sought greater personal freedom from the strict rules and literary forms of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists; the Romantics preferred emotional and imaginative expression to rational a |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two things, usually using the words like oras; for example, "like a thief in the night," "quiet as a mouse" |
| speaker | the imaginary person who speaks the words of a poem, not necessarily the poet |
| stream of consciousness | a narrative technique that allows readers to follow the uninterrupted and often disjointed flow of thoughts and ideas of characters as they occur |
| style | the words the writer chooses and the way the writer arranges the words into sentences |
| symbol | something concrete that stands for a more abstract idea in literature; for example, a dove may be a symbol for peace |
| theme | the main message that an author wants to communicate to a reader |
| tone | the attitude of the writer toward the topic or subject |
| villanelle | a 19-line poem that contains just two rhymes throughout and that is divided into six stanzas: five tercets (three-line stanzas) and one quatrain (a four-line stanza) |
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