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| show | A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent), some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.
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| show | A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage.
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| show | A poem that reveals a "soul in action." The character is speaking to an identifiable but silent listener at a dramatic moment in the speaker's life.
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| show | A pause or break in a line of verse.
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| show | synonym of syllepsis; an object-taking word has two or more objects on different levels, such as concrete and abstract (cultivate matrimony and your estate); or a grammatical irregularity such as "one or two years ago" (one and years don't match)
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| show | A critical essay in the Contemporary Review 1871 by Thomas Maitland (Robert W Buchanan) in which Dante Rosetti took the brunt of the criticism. Also "Mutual Admiration School"
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| show | A group of 18th century poets who wrote long poems on death and immortality. Atmosphere of pleasing gloom. Example is Thomas Parnell.
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| show | A group of Scottish writers whose work dealt idealistically with village life in Scotland. (example is J.M. Barrie)
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| show | A phrase from W.E. Aytoun in 1854 to a group of contemporary English poets whose verse reflected discontent and unrest, marked by jerkiness and strained emphasis.
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| show | The name of an actual person other than the author that is signed by the author to a work.
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| show | A mask. Refers to a "second self" created by an author and through whom the narrative is told.
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| show | The fictional author of a work, supposedly written by someone other than its actual author (Lemuel Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels instead of Jonathan Swift)
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| show | A device in which indirectness replaces directness of statement, usually in an effort to avoid offensiveness
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| show | a prudish adherence to conventionality, esp. in personal behavior
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| show | An inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another, which resembles it.
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| show | In medieval Europe, partly as survivals or adaptations of ancient pagan seasonal ceremonies, a species of games or spectacles characterized by a procession of masked figures.
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| show | A nonscriptural play based on the legend of a saint or on a miracle performed by a saint or sacred object.
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| show | A poetic drama developed in the late 14th century; a dramatized allegory in which abstractions appear in personified form and struggle for a human soul.
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| show | A medieval play based on biblical history; originated in the liturgy of the church.
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| show | A group of followers of Charles I who composed lighthearted poems. Included Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling.
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| show | This term came from the Edinburgh Review and used for poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey; lived in the same district in northwest England.
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| show | The relation between words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ.
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| show | a novel in which the narrative is carried forward by letters written by one or more of the characters.
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| show | T.S. Eliot's term for a pattern of objects, actions, or events or a situation that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion.
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| show | May consist of any number of 4 line stanzas but in any case, the 2nd and 4th lines of one must reappear as the 1st and 3rd lines in the following stanza.
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| show | A set French verse pattern, 15 lines with the 9th and 15th being a short refrain. Only 2 rhymes outside of the refrain. aabba aabc aabbac
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| show | Writing that by its incongruity of treatment ridicules a subject inherently noble or dignified. (opposite of mock epic)
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| show | A class of work specializing in bloodshed and violence. Many have to do with crime and high emotion.
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| show | emphasizes the rule of God over all things as reflected in its understanding of Scripture, God, humanity, salvation, and the church.
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| show | The beliefs of various cults in late pre-Christian and early Christian times. Thought that human beings had an immediate knowledge of spiritual truth that was available to them through faith alone.
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| show | The worship of material and mechanical prosperity and the disregard of culture, beauty and spirit.
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| show | A reliance on the intuition and the conscience; living close to nature and taught the dignity of manual labor.
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| show | Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.
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| show | also known as common measure or common meter. A stanza of 4 lines with the 1st and 3rd being iambic tetrameter (8 syllables) and the 2nd and 4th iambic trimeter (6 syllables), rhymed abab abcb
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| show | A stanzaic pattern named for the Greek poet who wrote love lyrics of great beauty around 600 BC. It has 3 lines of 11 or 12 syllables and a 4th of 5 syllables.
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| show | A foot of unaccented syllables; most commonly variations in iambic verse
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| show | A foot consisting of an accented and an unaccented syllable
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| show | a group of scholars known for developing critical theory and popularizing the dialectical method of learning by interrogating society's contradictions. Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse.
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| show | refers to the use of the Greek letter sigma (Σ), which represents the “s” sound.
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| show | A composition in praise of a living person, object or event (not a god) delivered before a special audience
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| show | A poem written to celebrate a wedding.
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| show | A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme.
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| show | Something that is analogous to or like another given thing; could be two versions of the same story, especially if no direct relationship can be established.
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| show | The turn in thought -- from question to answer; problem to solution -- that occurs at the beginning of the seset in the Italian Sonnet (sometimes in Shakespearean sonnet between 12th and 13th line) marked by yet or but
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| show | the internal rhyming of the last stressed syllable before the caesura, with the last stressed syllable of the line.
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| show | Contrasting light and shade
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| show | Unrhymed but otherwise regular verse -- usually iambic pentameter.
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| show | The omission of part of a word
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| show | the insertion of a sound or letter within a word
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| show | The interchange of position between sounds in a word (pretty as perty)
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| show | The addition of an extra letter, syllable, or sound at the end of a word, as in dearie for dear.
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| show | The addition of a syllable at the beginning of a word
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| show | a song or short narrative poem; based on earlier songs or verse tales sung by Breton minstrels from Celtic legend.
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| show | A simple French verse of 8 lines. The first two are repeated as the last two and the first line also recurs as the fourth. There are only 2 rhymes.
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| show | A Greek term renovated by Ezra Pound, who used it for the whole articulatory-acoustic-auditory range of poetry.
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| show | Used for the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
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| show | The use of superfluous syllables or words; may consist of needless repetition or of the addition of unnecessary words.
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| show | A figure of speech combining anaphora and epistrophe resulting in the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, along with the repetition of another or the same word or phrase at the end of these successive clauses.
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| show | An article that one keeps constantly on hand (usually means a book always at hand). Means "go with me."
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| show | "the unspeaking word" applied to the infant Christ, who incarnates the Word.
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| show | English sonnet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
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| show | A new word introduced into a language, especially for enhancing style
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| show | A word for which there is a single recorded occurrence (one invented by an author for a particular usage or special meaning)
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| show | A term used by Samuel Johnson for "a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult remembrances in things apparently unlike" in metaphysical poetry
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| show | A movement in modern poetry related to the manifestation of certain abstract developments and methods in painting and sculpture. (Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound) -- extension of imagism
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| show | The failure -- accidental or deliberate -- to complete a sentence according to the structural plan on which it was started.
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| show | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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| show | A term applied by Northrop Frye to a style shaped by the diction, rhythms, syntax, and associations of ordinary speech.
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| show | A term applied first to the architectural style that flourished in Europe from late 16th century until 18th. Blends picturesque elements with more ordered and formal style of "high Renaissance."
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| show | German for celebration and writing; a volume of miscellaneous learned essays by students, colleagues or admirers of a scholar and presented on some special occasion.
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| show | French poetic form consisting of 3 quatrains and a final couplet, making 14 lines. In all versions the scheme consists of three rhymes and 4-5 un-rhymed lines
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| show | sixteen line French poem composed of four quatrains. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain (1st line 1st stanza, 2nd line in 2nd and so on)
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| show | A quatrain as named by Paul-Jean Toulet, in which an alternating syllabic scheme of 8-6-8-6 is opposed by a chiastic rhyme of abba
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| show | the blending into one syllable of two vowels of adjacent syllables (as by crasis, synaeresis, synizesis, elision)
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| show | A narrative poem usually presenting an episode from the heroic past and resembling an epic but much briefer and more limited.
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| show | A minimal meaningful linguistic unit. (dismemberings is separated into dis-member-ing-s)
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| show | A device of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two more lines, clauses or sentences.
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| show | when a writer repeats a word or phrase with one or more words in between (ex. to be or not to be)
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| show | a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent.
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| show | The second, six-lined division of an Italian sonnet; it usually makes specific a general statement that has been presented in the octave or indicates the personal emotion of the author in a situation from the octave.
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| show | Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes.
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| show | A line of three feet
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| show | A line of four feet
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| show | A line of five feet
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| show | A line of six feet (conventional medium for epic and didactic poetry)
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| show | A line of seven feet
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| show | A pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed (ex. Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike)
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| show | A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite.
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| show | A chronicle --usually autobiographical -- presenting the life story of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry.
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| show | Prose fiction that places unusual emphasis on interior characterization and on the motives, circumstances, and internal action that spring from and develop external action.
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| show | the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating.
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| show | An acrostic so arranged that the initial letters of successive lines (or other units) form an alphabet.
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| show | According to Derrida, writing has been erroneously considered as derivative from speech, making it a "fall" from the real "full presence" of speech and the independent act of writing.
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| show | A term invented by Martin Esslin. Portrays not a series of connected incidents telling a story but a pattern of images presenting people as bewildered creatures in an incomprehensible universe.
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| show | A play that seems to lead to a tragic catastrophe until an unexpected turn of events brings about a happy denouement.
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| show | The idea of sacred names and naming, more recently applied to any special name (or proper noun) for persons, places, gods, days, etc.
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| show | a device where future events are spoken of as though they are occurring or have occurred. This can be done either by referring to a future event as though it was in the past, or can be done using a flash forward.
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| show | A group of American poets of the 1950s and 60s in a rebellion against the prevailing culture. Loose structure and slang diction. Leaders were Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac.
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| show | Writers like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. A bold experiment in aesthetic education; highly influential in projective verse movement.
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| show | A New York Group made famous by Washington Irving in first half of 19th century. Other members were James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant.
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| show | A group of American writers born around 1900 who served in WWI. Very active in publication of little magazines. Reacted against tendences of older writers in 1920s.
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| show | A German term that emphasizes the development of the principal character.
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| show | From the French, a thesis novel -- intended to establish and illustrate a social doctrine.
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| show | A cutting short of words through the omission of a letter or a syllable. (usually the omission of elements inside a word instead of running words together). Example: ev'ry for every
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| show | A pithy saying; often antithetical
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| show | A shortened version of a work but one that attempts to preserve essential elements.
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| show | The placing of a sentence element out of its normal position.
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| show | Arrangement of clauses, phrases, or words in dependent or subordinate relationships.
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| show | Running alternately from left to right and right to left; a term that describes the direction of writing in certain ancient inscriptions
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| show | Verse that sounds well but contains little or no sense of meaning (nonsense verse, such as Edward Lear's)
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| show | "different tongues" or "different speech"; a term introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin to designate the presence of more than one voice in a given narrative or other work.
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| show | The semblance of truth
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| show | A form of light verse that concerns an actual person, whose name is the first line of a quatrain with a strict aabb rhyme scheme, no regular rhyme or meter.
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| show | Incorporates elements of echo and identical rhyme so that the sound of the last syllable of one line recurs as the sound of the first syllable of the next but with a change of meaning
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| show | Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllables in a line.
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| show | The use of more than a usual number of hyphens (dapple-dawn-drawn)
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| show | A composition imitating another -- usually serious -- piece. It is designed to ridicule a work or its style or author.
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| show | The plural of the Arabic word for quatrain; a collection of four lined stanzas
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| show | A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
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| show | A foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented
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| show | pun
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| show | Words formed by telescoping two words into one, as the making of "squarson" from "squire" and "parson"
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| show | A "song of great deeds" Applied to the early French epic.
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| show | A short lyric, usually dealing with love or a pastoral theme and designed for a musical setting.
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| show | A poetic treatment of shepherds and rustic life, after the Latin for "shepherd"
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| show | the experience of seeing something by extraordinary sight
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| show | an outgrowth of interest in the irrational, distrust of any cosmic order, and frustration at humankind's lot in the universe; distortion of natural to point of absurdity
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| show | A work having to do with the land of the dead, especially a visit by a living person
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| show | A name applied to the belief that society has an innate tendency toward improvement and that that tendency can be furthered by conscious human effort.
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| show | A French verse form related to the lai of which the number of stanzas and number of lines to the stanza are unlimited. Each stanza has an indefinite number of tercets with aab then bbc, then ccd, etc
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| show | A term used for pastoral writing that deals with rural life ina manner rather formal and fanciful.
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| show | means "highly skilled or accomplished." harmonious combinations of dance, poetry, music, mime, and acting. Originally a part of the religious ritual of Japanese feudal aristocracy.
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| show | The ascription of human characteristics to non human objects (conceptual presentation of some nonhuman entity in human form)
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| show | a literary device that gives animal traits to non-animals, such as humans, gods, or objects.
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| show | Two successive lines rhyming aa and containing a grammatically complete, independent statement.
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| show | An octosyllabic pair: two rhyming lines of iambic or trochaic tetrameter
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| show | A rhyme in which the rhyming stressed syllables are followed by an undifferentiated identical unstressed syllable, such as "waken" and "forsaken"
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| show | Sameness or similarity of endings of consecutive words or words near each other -- often considered or graceless but sometimes unavoidable as in adjacent adverbs, verbal forms, accidental sameness of affixes, or echoic names.
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| show | An arrangement of sentences, clauses, phrases, or words in a coordinate rather than subordinate constructions, often without connectives.
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| vignette | show 🗑
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| carnivalesque | show 🗑
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| philology | show 🗑
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| show | A summary of the main points of a composition so made as to show the relation of parts to the whole
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| show | The study of allegorical symbols, especially with the Bible, in which much of the Old Testament is read as a type of the revelation to come in the New Testament
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| show | A song of praise or joy; usually in praise of a deity (originally Apollo)
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| threnody | show 🗑
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| show | A literary style used by the English and French decadent writers of the last quarter of the 19th century. Excessively refined emotion and preciosity of language
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| show | A group of attitudes that emphasizes existence rather than essence and sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe as the basic philosophical question
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| diasporic | show 🗑
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| dystopian | show 🗑
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| show | A fiction describing an imaginary ideal world. Comes from Thomas More's book of that name.
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| show | From German for "gaudy trash." shallow, flashy art designed to have popular appeal and commercial success
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| show | A word fabricated by spelling another word backwards
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| show | A figure of speech used so long that it is taken in its denotative sense only, without any conscious comparison to a physical object it once conveyed.
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| show | Obsolete phrasing, idiom, syntax, or spelling
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| show | an erroneous but plausible etymology forced onto a word by a common misconception
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| Hobson-Jobson | show 🗑
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| silent correction | show 🗑
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| de casibus | show 🗑
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| show | The "sweet new style" that flourished among lyric poets in certain Romance languages in the 13th century; premium on lucidity and complex musicality
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| bouts-rimes | show 🗑
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| show | A medieval dialogue poem in which a shepherdess is wooed by a man of higher social rank
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| New York School | show 🗑
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| Bluestockings | show 🗑
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| show | 19th century French poets influenced by 'art for art's sake'; great objective clarity and precision of detail. Lead by Leconte de Lisle
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| show | Abbreviation for International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists
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| show | A little ode (a single unified strain of exalted lyrical verse directed to a single purpose and dealing with one theme)
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| show | Five line stanza; specifically one by Adelaide Crapsey (5 unrhymed lines of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables)
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| show | A stanza of 14 lines that doesn't conform to a sonnet pattern
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| show | It refers to the idea that one's understanding of the text as a whole is established by reference to the individual parts and one's understanding of each individual part by reference to the whole.
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| lipogram | show 🗑
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| show | A stanza of 5 lines (or quintet)
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| show | A figure poem, one so written that the form of the printed words suggests the subject matter
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| obelisk | show 🗑
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| wiki | show 🗑
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| panegyric | show 🗑
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| upstaging | show 🗑
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| show | A kind of repetition whereby different forms and senses of a word are "woven" through an utterance
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| show | An adjective used to limit a noun that it really does not logically modify
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| show | TS Eliot's term for a pattern of objects, actions, or events or a situation that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion
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| asyndeton | show 🗑
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| show | to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation
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| wrenched accent | show 🗑
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| tag-line | show 🗑
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| show | French for "mounting" or "editing." A series of brief pictures or impressions following one another quickly without apparent order
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| show | Another name for heteromerous rhyme; compositions consisting of quotations from one or more authors
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| Antirealistic Novel | show 🗑
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| Magical Realism | show 🗑
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| show | A character added by Northrop Frye; a rustic who is easily deceived, a form of the country bumpkin
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| Companion poem | show 🗑
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| show | the force that starts the conflict of opposing interests and sets in motion the rising action of a play
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| show | a person who composes or relates fables.
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| show | A cheaply printed paperbound tale of adventure or detection originally selling for about 10 cents; equivalent to British penny dreadful
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| show | A play (usually in verse) designed to be read rather than acted
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| cloak and dagger | show 🗑
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| curtal sonnet | show 🗑
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| allelograph | show 🗑
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| show | Writing that reads the same from left to right and right to left, such as "civic"
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| rhopalic progression | show 🗑
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| decadence | show 🗑
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| inscription | show 🗑
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| patronage | show 🗑
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| show | A word -- usually a pronoun, adjective or verb -- that refers to another part of the discourse and not outward to a world or context
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| show | An utterance that says the opposite of what is meant; irony
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| show | Another term for carmen figuratum, a poem in which the lines are so arranged that they form a design on the page, taking the shape of the subject -- frequently an altar or cross
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| concrete poetry | show 🗑
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| echo verse | show 🗑
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| show | A poem so constructed that its printed form suggests its subject matter
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| anacrusis | show 🗑
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| show | literary gleanings, fragments, or passages from the writings of an author or authors
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| catalexis | show 🗑
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| homeoarchy | show 🗑
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| refrain | show 🗑
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| show | In one sense, the sound pattern that precedes a marked presence or the end of a sentence, making it interrogatory, hortatory, pleading, etc. Rhythm established in the sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables in a phrasal unit.
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| aphaeresis | show 🗑
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| apocope | show 🗑
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| show | the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless
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| show | Philosophy formed by Zeno in the late 4th century BC. Exalts endurance and self-sufficiency. Virtue consists in living in conformity to the laws of nature.
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| antibacchius | show 🗑
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| glee | show 🗑
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| projection verse | show 🗑
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| exegesis | show 🗑
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| calligraphy | show 🗑
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| intertextuality | show 🗑
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| epanalepsis | show 🗑
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| aphorism | show 🗑
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| acrostic | show 🗑
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| rebus | show 🗑
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| apposition | show 🗑
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| show | A conventionalized stanza appearing at the close of certain kinds of poems; particularly associated with the French ballade. (addressed to a person of importance; 4 lines; refrain repeated throughout; rhymes bcbc)
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| show | A conclusion; usually restates or summarizes or integrates the preceding themes or movements
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| show | A short verse, verset; a short sentence from the Psalms recited in responsive readings
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| show | Matter to be added to a piece of writing
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| show | An interjection to lend emphasis to a sentence or, in a verse especially, the use of a superfluous word to make for rhythm (profanity is another type)
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| show | an emptying or evacuation; also the deed or process by which Christ took on humble human form, surrendering divinity
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| show | Another name for personification; here, the abstraction is capable of speech
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| reification | show 🗑
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| cubism | show 🗑
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| show | A highly personal manner of writing in which the author presents materials as they appear to an individual temperament at a precise moment and from a particular vantage point rather than as they are presumed to be in actuality.
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| surrealism | show 🗑
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| show | The name applied to a group of poets active in England and America between 1909 and 1918. Members included Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and FS Flint. "An intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time"
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| bathos | show 🗑
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| show | The character of the speaker or writer as reflected in speech or writing; the quality or set of emotions that a speaker or writer enacts in order to affect an audience.
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| show | Derived from a Greek word, means “logic.” A literary device that can be described as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic.
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| show | myth or mythology; a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture
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| pathos | show 🗑
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| show | A word spelled the same as another but pronounced and defined differently, such as "does" and "does"
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| show | A wailing song sung at a funeral or in commemoration of death; a short lyric of lamentation
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| show | A poem expressing grief -- usually more intense and more personal than in a complaint.
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| show | A vocal style developed during the 1920s with a singer improvising patterns of repetitive nonsense syllables that suggest the sound of a musical instrument.
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| barbarism | show 🗑
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| provincialism | show 🗑
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| regionalism | show 🗑
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| show | To expurgate a piece of writing by omitting material considered offensive or indecorous, especially to female modesty
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| Fireside Poets | show 🗑
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| show | A system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating the locations of binomial accents, and counting the syllables
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| show | The art and practice of writing verse. Includes all the mechanical elements making up poetic composition
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| reception theory | show 🗑
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| Ciceronians | show 🗑
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| show | A group in the Renaissance who favored the introduction of heavy Latin and Greek words into the standard English Vocabulary
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| show | A term originally applied to an ancient group of 7 authors and later some others that flourished in France in 2nd half of 16th century. Native language to be enriched by coining words, borrow from Greek and Latin, and restoring lost native words
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| show | "eightfolds": 8 versions of a text in parallel columns; usually applied to ancient scriptural texts
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| octastitch | show 🗑
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| show | Having an acute accent on the final syllable
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| show | A stanza consisting of 8 iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc. Boccaccio is credited with originating the stanza.
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|
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| show | produced by a people speaking any of the Celtic dialects ("Brythonic" and Goidelic)
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| wisdom literature | show 🗑
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| frontier literature | show 🗑
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| show | A poem written so that its printed shape suggests its subject matter
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| show | Urbane humor, marked by subtle irony and polite mockery
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| show | A movement in Europe during and just after the WWI that ignored logical relationships between idea and statement, argued for absolute freedom, and delivered itself of numerous provocative manifestoes.
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| medievalism | show 🗑
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| primitivism | show 🗑
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| show | 1) rhetorical duplication of a word or phrase 2) repetition of material in a syllable -- common for diminutives
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| fin de siecle | show 🗑
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| diminishing metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | Often exploits verbal logic to the point of the grotesque, and it sometimes achieves such extravagant turns on meaning that it becomes absurd. (telling and unusual analogies)
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|
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| show | The accent determined by the meaning or intention of the sentence
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| satirical | show 🗑
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| pragmatic | show 🗑
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| quantitative verse | show 🗑
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| show | in modern times, any poet. Historically, poets who recited verses glorifying the deeds of heroes and leaders.
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| braggadocio | show 🗑
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| gleeman | show 🗑
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| show | An Anglo-Saxon court poet; composer and reciter (the gleeman performed it)
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|
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| show | A name given to the lyric poets and composers of Provence in 12th and 13th century. Name means "to find"; regarded as an inventor and experimenter.
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|
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| triple rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | A doctrine that pleasure is the chief good of human beings
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|
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| show | The idea that primitive human beings are naturally good and that whatever evil they develop is the product of the corrupting action of civilization
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|
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| show | The act of identifying ourselves with an object and participating in its physical and emotional sensations, even to the point of making our own physical responses
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|
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| show | A character who develops or changes as a result of the actions of the plot
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|
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| flat character | show 🗑
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| round character | show 🗑
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| static character | show 🗑
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| stock character | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech combining inconsistent or incongruous metaphors
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|
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| doppleganger | show 🗑
|
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| dullahan | show 🗑
|
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| ingenue | show 🗑
|
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| show | The braggart soldier; a stock character in comedy
🗑
|
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| tritagonist | show 🗑
|
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| show | A term used to describe the effect produced when an emotion or an experience -- whether autobiographical or not -- is so objectified that it can be understood as being independent of the immediate experience of its maker.
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|
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| show | the judging of a work of art in terms of its results, especially its emotional effect. Introduced by WK Wimsatt and MC Beardsley to describe the "confusion between the poem and its result"
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|
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| catharsis | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The error, frailty, mistaken judgment, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed.
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|
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| show | Overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy
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|
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| canticle | show 🗑
|
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| hagiography | show 🗑
|
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| show | Writing that ridicules and satirizes a person in a bitter, scurrilous manner in verse or prose
🗑
|
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| burlesque | show 🗑
|
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| show | A process of reasoning from data to conclusions
🗑
|
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| show | The belief that nature is preferable and fundamentally better than any aspect of human culture.
🗑
|
||||
| expressionism | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A group of attitudes that emphasizes existence rather than essence and sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the unierse as the basic philosophical question
🗑
|
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| aubade | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A rationally ordered poem of praise or blame, proceeding detail by detail.
🗑
|
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| show | the thing a metaphor describes.
🗑
|
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| leitmotif | show 🗑
|
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| show | The immediate subject, as opposed to the ultimate or ulterior intentional subject, of a metaphor. (the thing to which the tenor is compared.)
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|
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| relativism | show 🗑
|
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| show | Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling, but is not so from the pronunciation (watch and match)
🗑
|
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| show | A stanza of three lines -- a triplet -- in which each line ends with the same rhyme
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|
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| merism | show 🗑
|
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| trivium | show 🗑
|
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| stichomythia | show 🗑
|
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| allegory | show 🗑
|
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| catch | show 🗑
|
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| show | The reversal of fortune for a protagonist -- either in a fall in tragedy or in a success in comedy
🗑
|
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| show | The name used by Freytag for the event or force that sets in motion the rising action of a play.
🗑
|
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| show | Literally "unknotting"; final unraveling of a plot; explanation or outcome
🗑
|
||||
| catastrophe | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Latin: "from what comes before" for deductive reasoning; goes from general to specific.
🗑
|
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| show | Latin word for "crowd" and means "common" or "commonly used"
🗑
|
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| show | Latin for "nothing obstructs" used in Roman Catholic Church to grant permission to publish a book
🗑
|
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| show | rhetorical augmentation, either a piling on of detail in no particular order or a climactic advancing from small to great.
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|
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| acmeism | show 🗑
|
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| scholasticism | show 🗑
|
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| show | A movement emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control.
🗑
|
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| show | A device marked by full or partial repetition of a word, phrase, or clause more or less frequently throughout a stanza or poem
🗑
|
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| show | A stanza, particularly of a song
🗑
|
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| show | A unit if rhythm in verse, whether quantitative or accentual-syllabic
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|
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| meter | show 🗑
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| stich | show 🗑
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| show | A satire or lampoon hung up in a public place
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| caricature | show 🗑
|
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| palinode | show 🗑
|
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| show | The farthest possible place; used often in the sense of a remote goal
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|
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| show | a surprising and usually unmotivated stroke in a drama that produces a sensational effect
🗑
|
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| show | A feat of strength and virtuosity
🗑
|
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| show | the employment of some unexpected and improbable incident to make things turn out right.
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|
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| show | A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite
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|
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| antiquarianism | show 🗑
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| paleography | show 🗑
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| show | an inscription on a stone or on a statue or coin; a quotation on the title page of a book or a motto heading a section of a work
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|
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| show | A set of concepts about works of literature and their relationships to the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced.
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|
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| rime riche | show 🗑
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| show | Approximate but not true rhyme
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|
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| pararhyme | show 🗑
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| folio | show 🗑
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| show | A book size designating a book whose signatures result from sheets folded to four leaves (8 pages)
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|
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| show | A book size designating a book whose signature results from sheets folded to 8 leaves or 16 pages
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|
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| duodecimo | show 🗑
|
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| canto | show 🗑
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| novel of sensibility | show 🗑
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| libretto | show 🗑
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| show | A manuscript book, particularly of biblical or classical writing
🗑
|
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| show | A word list or wordbook; a vocabulary; term for dictionary
🗑
|
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| apothegm | show 🗑
|
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| show | Generally, a word that resembles another and is used in its place for the sake of euphemism, apotropaic deformation, insult, avoidance of libel, or some other purpose. (ex. Gosh for "God")
🗑
|
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| show | a type of real person or literary character: the woman who inspires an artist
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|
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| show | a stock character type; the dangerously attractive woman
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|
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| Graces | show 🗑
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| Fates | show 🗑
|
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| Muses | show 🗑
|
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| show | A summary or abridgement; 'miniature representation' of a subject
🗑
|
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| show | Matter to be added to a piece of writing
🗑
|
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| show | An abstract or epitome of the essential facts or statements of a work, retaining the order of the original
🗑
|
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| Epicureanism | show 🗑
|
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| show | A doctrine that pleasure is the chief good of human beings
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|
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| Hellenism | show 🗑
|
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| ara | show 🗑
|
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| invocation | show 🗑
|
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| malediction | show 🗑
|
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| parable | show 🗑
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| metastasis | show 🗑
|
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| show | The movement of any element in a piece of language from its customary place (also a general term for almost any alteration of words or patterns)
🗑
|
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| metanoia | show 🗑
|
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| antimetabole | show 🗑
|
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| repartee | show 🗑
|
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| show | Such an arrangement that one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased
🗑
|
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| show | A concluding statement
🗑
|
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| show | An inscription used to mark burial places
🗑
|
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| show | Strictly, an adjective used to point out a characteristic of a person or thing ('noisy mansions')
🗑
|
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| show | A poem written to celebrate a wedding.
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|
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| occasional verse | show 🗑
|
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| requiem | show 🗑
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| show | Anonymous and transmitted orally and usually existing in many variants
🗑
|
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| vers de circonstance | show 🗑
|
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| antistrophe | show 🗑
|
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| show | Irony, the satirical or humorous use of a word or phrase to convey an idea exactly opposite to its real significance
🗑
|
||||
| show | A species of enallage, using one part of speech for another, such as "but me no buts" where but (conjunction) is used as a verb then a noun.
🗑
|
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| show | A group of writers and thinkers, lead by Virginia Woolf in 1920s and 30s: the rational ends of social progress are "the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects"
🗑
|
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| show | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, places, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself.
🗑
|
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| show | the use of one object to represent or suggest another
🗑
|
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| show | a work, usually comic, set at a university
🗑
|
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| pluralism | show 🗑
|
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| show | a movement associated with "Jules Romains" in the first part of the 20th century, emphasizing the collective spirit in society and even in language
🗑
|
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| semiotic | show 🗑
|
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| show | the rule-governed arrangement of words in sentences.
🗑
|
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| show | court poets of the reign of Henry VIII who introduced the "new poetry" from Italy and France into England.
🗑
|
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| topographical poetry | show 🗑
|
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| translation | show 🗑
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| show | a poem in which characters boast of their exploits; common in oral literature, ballads, and epics
🗑
|
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| annals | show 🗑
|
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| show | A style strongly marked by archaisms; an insincere, artificial expression
🗑
|
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| Alexandrianism | show 🗑
|
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| show | a proverb or saying made familiar by long use
🗑
|
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| show | a syllogism informally stated and omitting either the major or the minor premise. The omitted premise is to be understood.
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| show | A verse or versicle, especially one of the short verses of a religious scripture
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| show | A group of Elizabethan dramatists, poets, and scholars, with perhaps some of the nobility. Lead by Sir Walter Ralegh.
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| show | A contemporary nickname for young poets and dramatists of the 17th century who acknowledged "rare Ben Johnson" as their master; chief was Robert Herrick.
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| show | the judging of the meaning of success or a work of art by the author's expressed or ostensible intention in producing it
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| show | A celebrated phrase put forward in a letter (December 1817) by John Keats "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"
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| show | A systematic arrangement of condensed materials on some specific subject so that it summarizes the information on that subject
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| show | A form of autobiography that deals with customarily hidden or highly private matters.
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| show | It was believed that some poets or bards were divinely inspired seers who spoke prophetic truth; they were called ______. An example was Sybil.
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| show | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of an exciting episode in narrative or dramatic form.
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| show | A change made in a literary text by an editor for removing error or supplying a supposed correct reading that has been obscured or lost through textual inaccuracy or tampering.
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| show | the words or acts of a character may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience.
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| show | a work or manner that blends a censorious attitude with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity.
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| show | literally, a manifestation or showing-forth, usually of some divine being.
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| show | A light satirical parody of a work, style, or genre
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| show | any bitter speech or harangue
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| show | in drama, a work that recounts a causally related series of events in the life of a person of significance, culminating in an unhappy catastrophe
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| show | also, domestic tragedy; tragedy dealing with the domestic life of commonplace people.
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| show | a form of circumlocution in which the truth is spoken in a way that tends to deceive or mislead
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| show | the second half or resolution of a dramatic plot; follows the climax and ends with the catastrophe
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| show | the part of a dramatic plot that has to do with the complication of the action; begins with exciting force and ends with the climax
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| show | term coined by Ezra Pound; the power of language to cast visual images onto the mind or imagination
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| show | an eight lined stanza
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| show | the state of having more than one meaning, with resultant uncertainty as to the intended significance of the statement
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| show | a metrical foot consisting of three syllables -- the first and last unaccented, the second accented (like ar -RANGE- ment)
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| show | repetition at the end of successive clauses/sentences
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| show | a kind of repetition in which the last word or phrase of one sentence or line is repeated at the beginning of the next
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| show | an element in titles of works dealing with a restoration or return (usually follows a name)
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| show | A philosophy that denies validity to speculation or metaphysical questions, maintaining that the proper goal of knowledge is the description and not the explanation of phenomena.
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| show | A graphic device of some sort that stands for a special meaning.
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| show | something that is itself and which also stands for something else and that, in a literary sense, combines a literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect.
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| show | A group having certain characteristics in common that distinguish them as being members of a definite class 1) literary genre with definable distinguishing characteristics 2)a character who is representative of a class or kind of person.
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| show | A rival, opponent or enemy
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| show | A protagonist of a modern play or novel who has the converse of most of the traditional attributes of the hero; they are graceless, inept and sometimes stupid or dishonest.
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| show | The chief character in a work; originally applied to the "first" actor in early Greek drama. Added to the chorus and was its leader.
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| show | An intellectual movement utilizing the methods of structural linguistics and structural anthropology; patterns formed by linguistic elements; literary conventions are a system of codes that contribute to and convey meaning.
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| show | A novel in which magic, mystery, and chivalry are the chief characteristics. Originated by Horace Walpole with Castle of Otranto.
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| show | A cheaply produced paperbound novel or novelette of mystery, adventure, or violence popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in England.
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| show | cheaply produced with lurid illustrations and gaudy covers, featuring tales of love, crime, and adventure. Named for the paper it's printed on.
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| show | the repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables.
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| show | a term applied to writing that consists of little more than a series of incidents, with the episodes succeeding each other and with no particularly logical arrangement or complication.
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| show | a device by which a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene of the work.
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| show | From the French word for a stereotype plate; a block for printing, any expression so often used that its freshness and clarity have worn off.
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| show | 3 unities: action, place, time. Action is the only one directly mentioned
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| show | a list of printed or manuscript materials on any chosen topic; in an analytical sense the history of writing, printing, binding, illustrating and publishing.
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| show | a rhetorical term for a rising order of importance in the ideas expressed; each succeeding clause rising in intensity or importance.
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| show | a central idea; in nonfiction it is the general topic of discussion, subject of the discourse, the thesis; in poetry, fiction and drama, it is the abstract concept that is made concrete through representation in person, action and image.
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| show | a brief tale told to point a moral. Characters are frequently animals, but sometimes feature people and inanimate objects.
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| show | a work--usually a play--based on a romantic plot and developed sensationally, with little regard for motivation and with an excessive appeal to the emotions of the audience.
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| show | a musical entertainer or traveling poet of the later Middle Ages; flourished in 13th and 14th centuries. A gifted wandering entertainer, skilled with the harp and tabor, singing songs, reciting romances, and carrying news from place to place.
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| show | rude verse; any poorly executed attempt at poetry; characteristics are monotony of rhyme and rhythm, cheap sentiment, and trivial, trite subject matter.
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| show | a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another, as "cask" to "sack"
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| show | a term applied to statements capable of two different meanings, usually intentional. An example is the witches' prophecies in Macbeth.
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| show | reduction of stress on a syllable caused by the rhythmic environment, usually involves monosyllables or which the stress depends on the context.
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| show | in literature, a person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another.
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| show | The Greek goddess of retributive justice or vengeance. Also applied to divine retribution, when an evil act brings about its own punishment (both the agent and act of merited punishment)
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| show | A movement in Germany in the last quarter of the 18th century. Revolt from the conventions and tenets of French classicism. Strong nationalistic and folk element, characterized by fervor, enthusiasm, restlessness, portrayal of great passion, emotion
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| show | "theater of the world"; metaphorical concept that likens human life to a stage
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| show | base, shameful speech
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| show | the silent acting out of the meaning of a syllable or a homonym
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| show | coined by Mikhail Bakhtin, refers to the interwoven and inseparable nature of time and space as they are represented in a narrative, shaping the characters and events within a story
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| show | most are literary compositions typically characterized by imagination, emotion, significant meaning, sense impressions, and concrete language that invites attention to its own physical features; an orderly arrangement of parts.
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| show | the Greek for imitation, often used specifically to indicate Aristotle's theory of imitation; designate works that imitate characters on a human level.
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| show | a term used by various philosophers to stress the reality or value of the objective world, importance of the status of an artwork as a physical object.
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| show | An African-American folk song developed in Southern US. characteristically short (3 lines), melancholy, frequent repetition, sung slowly in minor mode.
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| show | A type of music originated from West Indies, ballad-like improvisation in African rhythms. frequently deal satirically with current topics.
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| show | A style of music, song, and performance that became popular in the 1970s, beginning in Jamaica; strongly accented on 2nd and 4th beat; usually rhymed couplets of iambic tetrameter. Religion and politics are subjects.
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| show | a song of lamentation; a funeral dirge; Ireland and Scotland means "wailing together" and typically sung by women.
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| show | a dirge or lament in which a single mourner expresses grief
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| show | there is only one proper procedure or set of principles; matches philosophy of monism
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| show | After women's movement following WWII; "The Second Sex" and "Sexual Politics" are founding works, both the study of women's writing and an analysis of the works of male authors and how they portray women and relation to women readers.
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| show | based on psychological speculations and discoveries that argues the influence of the unconscious and that has offered a new light on character relationships in literary works.
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| show | assumes the independent reality of matter and its priority over mind. A theory of value based on labor, economic determination of all social actions and institutions, the class struggle as basic pattern in history, etc.
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| show | a French term that translates as 'raw art', invented by the French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art such as graffiti or naïve art
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| show | a form of historical writing; concern with larger aspects of history
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| show | a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures, forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race
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| show | a poem where the last letters of successive lines spell out a word, phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet,
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| show | an anonymous story that presents supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events.
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| show | the acoustic counterpart of anagram. The sounds composing one word or phrase are rearranged to make another word or phrase.
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| show | having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
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| show | A group of 1940s writers who struggle to see the world afresh -- in a different light -- as might a visitor from a different place
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| show | literary and scientific people around Cambridge and Boston in mid 19th century who came together at irregular intervals chiefly for social intercourse and good conversation.
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| show | a broad term referring to the recognition of a reality different from appearance.
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| show | a figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed.
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| show | a scholarly activity that attempts to establish the authoritative text of a work.
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| show | the audience is kept at such a distance that unthinking emotional and personal involvement is inhibited while political messages are delivered.
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| show | opposite of verisimilitude; instead of making beholders forget or ignore the fact that they are encountering an artifact, much art admits that it is not transparent but opaque
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| show | the idea of 'pure expressiveness' of literary speech, in which a writer's use of language deviates sufficiently from the structures of ordinary discourse to displace or arrest the function of signification.
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| show | a term for a novel in which episodic action dominates and plot and character are subordinate.
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| show | incompetent poet
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| show | the use or study of poetic meters; prosody.
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| show | the principles of versification, particularly as they refer to rhyme, meter, rhythm and stanza
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| show | literature, usually prose fiction, entirely or partly written as letters
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