THS AcDec Lang and Lit study guide
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| Alexandrine- | show 🗑
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| Allegory- | show 🗑
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| Alliteration- | show 🗑
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| show | An indirect reference to a person, place, or thing-fictitious, historical, or actual
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| show | A comparison made between two objects, situations, or ideas that share something in common but are otherwise totally different.
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| Anapest- | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, verses, or paragraphs.
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| show | A character in a story or play that opposes the protagonist.
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| show | A figure of speech in which a character or a narrator directly addresses an abstract concept, an inanimate object, or a person who is not present.
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| show | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables or words; like alliteration, assonance may occur either initially or internally.
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| show | A narrative song or poem passed on orally
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| Blank Verse- | show 🗑
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| show | A light but definite pause within a line of poetry.
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| show | the purification of emotions by vicarious experience, especially through drama.
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| Characterization- | show 🗑
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| Chiasmus- | show 🗑
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| show | An ancient Greek drama, a group of actors who sang an danced in unison and provided commentary on the actions of the main characters.
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| Cliche | show 🗑
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| Climax | show 🗑
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| show | A play written primarily to amuse the audience, usually featuring a protagonist who's fortunes take a turn for the better.
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| show | An amusing scene, incident, character, or speech introduced to a tragic work to relieve tension.
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| Concrete Poem | show 🗑
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| show | A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, play, novel, or narrative poem; a conflict can be external or internal. 4 types: Person VS Person, Person VS Nature, Person VS Society, Person VS Self
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| show | The emotional associations that surround a word, as opposed to its denotation.
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| show | A three syllable metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
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| show | Falling Action
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| Denouement | show 🗑
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| show | The literal meaning of a word-its dictionary definition that doesn't take into account any other emotions or ideas the reader may associate with it.
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| Deus Ex Machina | show 🗑
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| Dialect | show 🗑
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| show | a conversation carried on between two or more people in a literary work; dialogue can serve many purposes, including characterization, advancement of the plot, development of the theme(s) and creation of mood.
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| Didactic Poetry | show 🗑
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| show | A situation in which the author and the audience share knowledge by which they can recognize that the character's actions are inappropriate or that the character's words have a signifigance but these things are unknown to the character.
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| show | A lyric poem in which the speaker addresses someone whose replies are not recorded; the poet adopts the voice of a fictive or historical voice or some other persona.
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| Dramatic Situation | show 🗑
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| show | A character that changes in some way- usually for the better- during the course of the story.
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| show | A lament or a sadly meditative poem, sometimes written on the occasion of death; usually formal in the language and structure and solemn or melancholy in tone.
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| End Rhyme | show 🗑
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| End-Stopped Line | show 🗑
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| English or Shakespearean Sonnet | show 🗑
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| Enjambment | show 🗑
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| EPIC!!!!!!! | show 🗑
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| show | A short poem that ends in a witty or ingenious turn of thought, to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up.
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| Epigraph | show 🗑
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| show | A moment of enlightenment in which the underlying truth or essential nature of something is suddenly revealed something or made clear to a character.
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| show | Associated with letters or the writing of letters; for example, an epistolary poem is a letter written in verse.
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| Eye rhyme | show 🗑
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| Exposition | show 🗑
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| show | In some cases, the exposition will provide the audience with info on events that occurred prior to the point in time at which the work begins.
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| Falling Action | show 🗑
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| show | A highly comic, lighthearted drama, usually involving stack situations and characters and based on a far-fetched humorous situation.
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| Feminine Ending | show 🗑
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| Feminine Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Figurative Language | show 🗑
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| show | An expression in which words are used in a non-literal way to achieve an effect beyond the range of ordinary language.
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| show | An interruption in the continuity of a story by the betrayal of some earlier episode.
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| show | A character that a single distinguishing trait and has not developed into a whole personality.
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| show | A division of verse consisting of a number of syllables, one of which that has the principal stress; the basic unit of meter in poetry.
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| show | The use of hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem
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| show | A narrative device whereby a story or group of stories is presented (often told by one of the characters) within the framework of a larger narrative; Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales is an example of a framed story.
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| show | Poetry that does not have a fixed meter of rhyme scheme.
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| Haiku | show 🗑
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| show | Slant Rhyme.
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| show | The central character in a work of fiction.
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| Heroic Couplet | show 🗑
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| High | show 🗑
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| Framed Story | show 🗑
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| show | Poetry that does not have a fixed meter of rhyme scheme.
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| Haiku | show 🗑
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| Half-Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Hero/Heroine | show 🗑
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| show | Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
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| High Comedy | show 🗑
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| show | A metrical foot consisting of two syllables, the first unaccented, the second accented.
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| show | Poetry consisting of a line of five iambs;the most common verse line in English poetry;a meter especially familiar because it occurs in all blank verse, heroic couplets, and sonnets.
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| show | The details in a work of literature that appeal to the senses of the reader, lend the work vividness, and tend to arouse an emotional response in the reader.
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| show | A Latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things", used in reference to narratives that begin in the middle of the action.
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| Internal Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Irony | show 🗑
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| show | A 14 line poem in two parts, an initial octet(eight lines) followed by a sestet( six lines), usually having a rhyme scheme of abbaabba/cdecde; the octet and sestet are usually played off of one another in some way.
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| show | A five line comic verse form with a rhyme scheme of aabba, with the first, second, and fifth lines in tri-meter and the third and fourth in dimeter.
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| Litotes | show 🗑
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| Low Comedy | show 🗑
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