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Lit terms #14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| protagonist | the main character in a story; more than one person may be important enough to call "main" |
| pyretic | a metrical foot having two unstressed syllables |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| quintet | a five line stanza |
| realism | fidelity to actually in literature |
| retrain | a phrase or line, usually pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated at regular intervals throughout the poem, usually a the end of stanza |
| resolution | the part of the story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the eloquent use of language |
| rhetorical device | device used to produce effective speaking or writing |
| rhetorical question | a question solely for effective speaking or writing |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming words in a stanza |
| rhyme | similarity of likeness of sound; may be internal or at the ends of the stanza |
| double rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of the words involved(politely-rightly-sprightly); a form of feminine rhyme |
| identical rhyme | if the preceding consonant sound is the same(manse-romance), or if there is no preceding consonant sound in either word (aisle-isle, alter-altar) or if the same word is repeated in the rhyming position at the end of a line |
| triple rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of words involved( gainfully-disdainfully) |
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