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Eng 140 final review
Question | Answer |
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Poetic Meter | The number of beats per line in a poem |
Iambic | Soft/Loud |
Trochaic | Loud/Soft |
Trimeter | pattern in which there are three beats to a line |
Tetrameter | Pattern in which there are four beats |
Rhyme scheme | ABABCC- The rhyming sounds at the end of each line |
Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words |
Discursive Characterization | Telling about a character-simple facts about a character's age, looks, education, values, etc |
Dramatic Characterization | When a character reveals the truth about him/herself through thr things the character says and does. |
Character on Character Characterization | Occurs when a character is revealed by the things and the people which a character surrounds him/herself with |
Hawthorne's Head/Heart Concept | Both the cause and cure of a person's problems are found in the heart, but the heart alone can't cure it. Only when head and heart work together can do we get health and goodness. |
Antagonist | In conflict with the protagonist |
Protagonist | Main character who makes the controlling decision |
Reforming Character | Character who changes for the better |
Simile | Making a comparison using like or as |
Didactic | Intending to teach a moral lesson |
Denouement | End of the story |
Medias Res | Story that starts in the middle of end and tells through flashbacks |
Prose | Not poetry; ordinary form of spoken or written language. |
Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence or clause over a line break |
Humanities | Man's attempt to explain himself and his world. Literature, visual art, music and dance, and architecture |