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Engl: Terms
terms for english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhythm | (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement, symmetry") is the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds or other events. |
| Imagery | it is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. |
| Diction | the selection and arrangement of words in a literary work. Either or both may vary depending on the desired effect. |
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. |
| Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words. |
| Tense | the form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). |
| Punctuation | something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions. |
| Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as'). |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech concisely expressed by an implied analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another. |
| Doggerel | very poor verse. |
| Soliloquy | a literary device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts without addressing any of the other characters. |
| Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote. |
| Sarcasm | witty language used to convey insults or scorn. |
| Meiosis | a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it is. |
| Spoonerism | the accidental transposition of initial sounds or syllables of two words, usually with humorous results, as roaring pain for pouring rain. |
| Gemination | the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect). |
| Pleonasm | using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child". |
| Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence'). |
| Zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma". |
| Syllepsis | use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one. |
| Litotes | a figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite. For example, rather than merely saying that a person is attractive one might say they are "not unattractive". |
| Kenning | a metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way, such as ‘whale road’ for ‘sea’, or ‘enemy of the mast’ for ‘wind’ |
| Paregmenon | juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility'). |
| Mentonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads'). |
| Figurative Speech | figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. |
| Non-Figurative Speech | use of speech is a use of a word that doesn't diverge from its normal meaning. |
| Anapestic Tetrameter | two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. We could write the rhythm like this: da da DUM A line of anapestic tetrameter is four of these in a row: da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM |
| Enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause. |
| Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. |
| Limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba. |
| Blank Verse | a verse form consisting of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |
| Heroic Couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style. |
| Sestina | type of fixed form poetry consisting of thirty-six lines of any length divided into six sestets and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy. |
| Villanelle | a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes. |
| Open Form | a work in which the performer decides which order to play the material, where to start and where to stop. |
| Meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration. |
| Connotation | a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase |
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