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Eng2 Literary Terms
Stack #66283
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Alliteration- the repetition of sounds, usually consonant sounds but sometimes vowel sounds, at the beginnings of words in the same line or in successive lines.I.E lake water lapping with low sounds. |
| Allusion | Allusion- A made to something the author expects the reader to understand. |
| Archtype | Archtype- creation story, hero story, age story |
| Ballad | Ballad- a relatively short poem that tells a story. There are two types of ballads, folk ballads and literary ballads. lit. can be sang. |
| Elegy | Elegy- a poem mourning death of someone. like a eulogy |
| Characterization | Characterization- qualities of a character, i.e physical apperance, thoughts, dialog. |
| Colloquial Speech | Colloquial Speech- manner of speaking that is informal. i.e "life for me ain't been no crystal stair" |
| Conflict | Conflict-clash of opposing forces. |
| Couplet | Couplet- two successive lines, usually rhymed, which form a single unit of verse. i.e I like girls, who smell like pearls |
| Dramatic Monologue | Dramatic Monologue- a type of poem in which a speaker addresses a listener or listeners who do not answer. The speaker reveals his character by commenting on a crucial problem or conflict in his life. |
| epic | epic- a long poem, which has a heroic character, the odyssey |
| Epithet | Epithet- repeatedly used phrase |
| hyperbole | hyperbole- exaggeration. |
| figurative language | Figurative language- language that is not meant to be interpreted on a strict, literal level because it would make no sense or little sense if it were. "imagenary", poetic, fantasy... |
| Irony | Irony- a figure of speech in which the writer says something in such a way that the opposite meaning is implied. i.e "it is a boring song, but it works everytime" |
| free verse | free verse- poetry that does not have s strict or fixed rhythmic pattern or equal line lengths, and which does not rhyme. "no formal structure" |
| image | image- a word or phrase that has to do with 5 senses |
| lyric | lyric- musical poem, expressing emotion or attitude |
| metaphor | metaphor- where one thing is compared indirectly to another dissimilar thing without "like" or "as" i.e I will tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time... or this test is cake |
| meter | meter- an organized rhythmic pattern created by the repetition of the same foot, or group of stressed and unstressed syllables, throughout a poem. i.e True EASE in WRITing COMES from ART not CHANCE |
| narrative poem | narrative poem- a poem tellinga story both long and short |
| onomatopoeia | onomatopoiea- words imitating sounds. i.e buzz |
| personification | personification- where inanimate objects are given human qualities, i.e the table walked home |
| quatrain | quatrain- four line stanza |
| rhyme | rhyme- words that ryhme. "I like to rhyme but not with slime" |
| Simile | simile- comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| sonnet | sonnet-a lyric poem of fourteen lines usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| stanza | stanza- group of lines which are considered a division of the poem |
| symbol | symbol-something chosen to stand for something other than itself. |
| tone | tone- the poet's attitude toward the subject or audience |
| verse | verse- a work consisting of metrical or rhythmical lines made up of a specified number of feet. Like a sentence of a poem. |
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Seanmax
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