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Literature ch 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lyric | Short, sung poems |
| Dramatic | Verse that appears in a play (e.g., soliloquy) |
| Narrative | Poems that tell a story, can be spoken or sung |
| Anaphora | Repetition of same word to introduce two or more lines |
| Antithesis | Word groups conveying opposite meanings |
| Metaphor | Analogy between two persons, subjects, states |
| Oxymoron | Juxtaposition of words with opposing meaning |
| Simile | Comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as” |
| Conceit | An extended metaphor |
| Couplet | Pair of successive lines that rhyme and are of the same length |
| Hard Consonant | Consonants made up of clicks, pops, and fricatives |
| Modernism | Reaction to the past |
| Quatrain | Stanza or poem of four lines with alternate rhymes |
| Sapphic Stanza | Long-short, long-short, long-short-short, long-short, long-short |
| Shakespearian Sonnet | A B A B C D C D E F E F G G |
| Soft Consonant | Consonants without noise |
| Soliloquy | Monologue where a character reveals his inner thought |
| Stream of Consciousness | Continuous unedited flow of thoughts through the min |