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lit terms wordbank1
Letters Band C
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ballad | A ballad is a narrative poem, usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song |
| Ballad Meter | an iambic metre consisting of four lines of length 8,6,8,6 syllables. Baroque |
| Bathos | ridiculous artwork or performance.Melodrama, absurdity (in writing or speech) |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed but structured verses. |
| Ballad Meter | I do not like green eggs and ham |
| Black Humor | a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic |
| Bombast | speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words |
| Bombast | "Im a master of the custodial arts" |
| Burlesque | involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject. |
| Burlesque | Quagmire date rape and FDR's legs |
| Caesura | a break, a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan. |
| Canon | any officially recognized set of sacred books |
| Canon Church law; accepted principle | Church law; accepted principleBible |
| Canto | one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem |
| Caricature | drawing that exaggerates certain physical characteristics; something absurd |
| Carpe Diem | "seize the day", enjoy life now, live for the moment Catharsis |
| Characterization | Characterization is the process of conveying information about characters in fiction.Characters are usually presented through their actions, dialect, and thoughts, as well as by description. |
| Climax | the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president |
| Colloquialisms | A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguism |
| Colloquialisms | Y’all, yo, rad, wavy |
| Comic Relief | an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action |
| Internal Conflict | in literature and drama, a struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind and through which the character reaches a new understanding or dynamic change |
| External Conflict | in literature, a struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or some outside force |
| Conceit | something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours |
| Connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection |
| Consonance | accord or agreement.correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. |
| Couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse,esp a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. A couple that are perfect for each other. They have alot in common. |
| Couplet | My mom gave me 3 dollars to buy a peachI used it to buy a bus ticket to the beach |
| Burlesque | over the top. "FDR'S LEGS" |
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