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Introduction to Literary Studies I

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show It encompasses all written communications in the broadest sense and only prose, poems, drama and specialist literature in the narrow sense  
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What is the criteria of 'functionality'?   show
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What is the criteria of 'Literature as a non pragmatic discourse'?   show
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What is the criteria of "defamiliarisation'?   show
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What is the criteria of 'the aesthetics of production and reception'?   show
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What is the criteria of 'cultural consensus'?   show
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What are the literary methods?   show
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show It's the study of signs and sign processes.  
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What are signs?   show
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What did Ferdinand de Saussure say?   show
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What is an analogic sign?   show
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show This sign shows no similarity to the object it refers to. E.g. human language  
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What is the difference between signifiers?   show
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What is the plane of syntagm?   show
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What is the plane of paradigm?   show
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What connection is between the paradigmatic and syntagmatic level?   show
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What is denotation?   show
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What is connotation?   show
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What is a synonym?   show
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What is an isotopy?   show
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show A lyric text can be defined as the lyric I's immediate expression of subjective perceptions and emotions which is usually characterized by complex textual structure.  
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show Prose is characterized by an irregular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.  
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show Verse is determined by a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables -> by metre poetic compositions written in metre  
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What is a blank verse?   show
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show A couplet is two lines of verse, usually couplet by rhyme.  
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What is a heroic couplet?   show
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What is a tercet?   show
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show It's a stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed.  
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show It's a seven line iambic pentameter stanza, rhyming ababbcc  
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show It's a eight line stanza, rhymes abababcc  
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What is a Spenserian stanza?   show
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show It is traditionally a poem of fourteen iambic pentameters linked by intricate rhyme scheme.  
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show The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.  
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show Is a five line stanza thought to take it's name from an old custom at convivial parties whereby each person was required to sing an extemporized "nonsense verse", which was followed by a chorus containing the words "Will you come up to Limerick?"  
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What is visual poetry?   show
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How is an Italian sonnet defined?   show
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How is an English sonnet defined?   show
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What do you know about the 'lyric I'?   show
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show -can be overt, remains hidden -addressed to a particular individual group => entirely and explicity  
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What is metre?   show
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What is an ictus and a non-ictus?   show
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How is a prose rhythm defined?   show
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What is iamb?   show
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What is trochee?   show
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show It is a stressed syllables followed by two unstressed ones.  
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What is anapest?   show
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show monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter  
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show Two syllables stressed after each other. And see/ the brave/ day sunk/  
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What is an inversion?   show
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What is a missing stress/unrealized ictus?   show
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What is a run-on line?   show
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show It is a break in metre which divides up a line of verse into parts.  
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What is an end-rhyme?   show
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show It's a special case; full rhyme between two or more words within the same line of verse.  
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What is a masculine rhyme?   show
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What is a feminine rhyme?   show
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show It is a rhyme involving three syllables.  
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What is a full rhyme?   show
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What is a rich rhyme?   show
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What is an identical rhyme?   show
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What kind of rhyme is a vowel rhyme and how is it defined?   show
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What kind of rhyme is a 'consonance at the end of two lines' and how is it defined?   show
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What kind of rhyme is a pararhyme and how is it defined?   show
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What is an eye rhyme?   show
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show It uses rhyme words that used to be, but are no longer, consonant, owing to changes in pronunciation.  
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show It is the division of one of the rhyme words into more than one word.  
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What is a broken rhyme?   show
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show It is the succession of words with the same initial sound or succession of accented syllables with the same consonant or consonantal group?  
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show It is the congruence of consonants short of alliteration; repetition of a sequence of two or more consonant, but with change in the intervening vowel.  
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show It is the congruence between vowel sounds only.  
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show It is the use of words to intimate sounds.  
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show It is the repetition of a word or a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses or lines of verse.  
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What is an epiphora?   show
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What is an epanalepsis?   show
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What is an anadiplosis?   show
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What is a polyptoton?   show
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What is the figura etymologica?   show
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What is a synonym?   show
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What is a parallelism?   show
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What is a chiasmus?   show
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show It is the succession of words or phrases without conjoining words.  
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show It is the succession of words or phrases linked by conjoining words.  
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What is an inversion?   show
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show It is the reversal of the logical succession of events.  
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show It is the omission of sentence components?  
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show It is the abrupt cessation before the end of an utterance?  
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show It is the application of one verb to more than one object in different senses.  
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What is a simile?   show
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show It is a covert comparison.  
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show Concretizing metaphor, metaphors which link inanimate and animate fields, anthropomorphizing metaphors, synaesthetic metaphors  
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What is a symbol?   show
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What is an allegory?   show
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