THS AcDec Lang and Lit study guide
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| show | When a syllable is given a greater amount of force in speaking than is given to another, also called a stress.
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| show | In English verse a line of iambic hexameter, usually having a caesura after the third foot.
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| show | A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within them, especially in accented syllables.
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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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| 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 purification of emotions by vicarious experience, especially through drama.
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| show | The methods used by an author to develop the personality of a character in a literary work.
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| show | A rhetorical device in which words or phrases initially presented are restated in reverse order for example, "do not live to eat, but eat to live"
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| show | An amusing scene, incident, character, or speech introduced to a tragic work to relieve tension.
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| show | An elaborate, extended, and often surprising comparison made between two very dissimilar things that exhibits the authors ingenuity and cleverness; (from the Italian concetto, meaning concept, bright idea).
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| show | A poem in which the visual arrangement of the letters and words suggests its meaning.
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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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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by a different vowel.
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| show | Falling Action
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| show | The resolution of a plot of a literary work; the final unraveling of the complications of a plot; the word denouement is French unknotting or untying.
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| Denotation | show 🗑
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| Deus Ex Machina | show 🗑
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| show | Variety of language spoken by a social group or spoken in a certain locality that defers from the standard speech in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical form.
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| Dialogue | show 🗑
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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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| Dramatic Situation | show 🗑
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| Dynamic Character | show 🗑
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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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| show | Rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry.
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| show | A line of poetry that contains a complete thought, usually end with a period, colon, or semi-colon, and therefore ends in a full pause; the opposite of a run-on line.
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| show | A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of abab/cdcd/efef/gg; is usually presented in a 4 part structure in which a theme or idea is developed in the 1st three quatrains and then is brought to a conclusion in a couplet.
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| Enjambment | show 🗑
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| Epigram | show 🗑
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| show | a motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, poem, or chapter that usually indicates its name.
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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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| show | rhyme in which two or more words look the same and are spelled similarly but have different pronunciations, for example, "have" and "grave"; also called sight rhyme.
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| Exposition; | show 🗑
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| show | In a narrative, action that occurs after the climax and directly before the denouement or the resolution of the plot.
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| show | An unaccented syllable at the end of line of poetry.
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| show | A rhyme in which the similarity of sound is in both of the last two syllables; for example,"weary" and "dreary".
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| Figure Of Speech | show 🗑
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| Flat Character | show 🗑
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| show | a person or thing that highlights the traits of a character by contrast.
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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 | 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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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| show | A Japanese poetic form that is comprised of three unrhymed of five, seven, and five syllables respectively.
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| show | Slant Rhyme.
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| Hero/Heroine | show 🗑
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| show | Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
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| show | A comedy that appeals to the intellect using verbal wit, a clever plot, and visual elegance, usually having upper class characters.
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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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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| In Medias Res | show 🗑
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| Internal Rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | The contrast between what appears to be and reality; see dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony.
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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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| Limerick | show 🗑
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