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| only number of stressed syllables is fixed |
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| both stressed and total number of syllables fixed |
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| duration of sound determines meter, not stresses |
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| 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 feet per line |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| alternation tetrameter and trimeter |
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| single stressed syllable - "car" and "far" |
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| /- rhyme "mother" "brother" |
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| phrase, group of lines that is repeated throughout poem |
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| eight-line stanza, iambic pentameter, abababcc |
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| six six-line stanzeas followed by 3-line stanze, with same six words ending |
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| abbaabba or abbacddc octave and sestet |
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| 19 lines five tercets and a final quatrain, only two rhymes, with two refrains |
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| a concise expression of insight or wisdom |
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| a folk song telling a story or legend in simple language |
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| a humorous imitation of a serious work |
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| autobiographical, expressing personal truths |
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| lit that teaches or instructs |
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| a short poetic expression of grief, meant to be sung, often part of larger work |
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| a poem where a character addresses a specific audience |
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| imagined future society that is meant to be perfect, but is very inhuman |
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| a short pastoral poem in form of soliloquy or dialogue between two shepherds |
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| formal, laments death or friend or public figure |
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| lengthy, describes heroic figure |
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| succinct, witty statement, often in verse |
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| short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker. Most modern poetry is lyric (as opposed to dramatic or narrative) |
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| concerns the nature of fiction itself, sometimes by drawing attention to its own fictional status or. |
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| a platform for discussing ideas |
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| focuses on social customs, manners |
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| a realistic novel detailing a scoundrel's exploits, like don quixote |
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| serious lyric poeem, often of significant length |
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| humorous imitation of another author or work |
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| imitation, not mockery, unlike parody |
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| high energy comedy play buffoonery, slapstick |
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| middle ages, featuring saints or virgin mary |
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| 15 16centuries, allegory for christian struggle for salvation |
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| play based on biblical story |
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| ritualized form of japanese drama- masks, slow stylized movement |
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| confronts contemporary social problem with intent of changing public opinion |
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| express preference for natural over artificial in human culture |
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| free indirect discourse - third person narration |
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| narrator conveys character's inner thoughts |
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| a sudden shift that sends the protagonist's fortunes from good to bad or vice versa |
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| series of loosely connected events |
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| breaking off of speech, often because of emotion |
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| a direct address of an absent or dead person |
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| two phrases in which the syntax is the same but the placement of words is reversed - to be beloved is all i need, and whom i love, i love indeed. |
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| elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects |
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| a common expression that had acquired a meaning different from its literal meaning "it's raining cats and dogs" |
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| understatement in which a statement is affirmed by negating its opposite "he is not unfriendly" |
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| understatement, including litotes |
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| the technique of drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it. |
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| the use of similar grammatical structure to suggest comparison |
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| the attibution of human feelings or motivation to a nonhuman object |
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| an elaborate and roundabout manner of speech that uses more words than necessary |
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| two heads are better than one |
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| a category of figures of speech that exten the literal meanings of words by inviting a comparison to other words - metaphor, simile, metonymy etc |
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| the use of one word in a sentence to modify two other words, in two different ways - "he took his hat and his leave" |
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| holy cow moment, especially in Greek tragedy |
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| a sudden switch from profound to superficial or trivial |
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| god interferes to solve problems "god from a machine" |
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| "in the middle of things" starting a narrative in the middle of the action |
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| a prayer for inspiration to a god or muse, usually at beginning of epic |
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| an author's persistent reminding of his or her presence in the work |
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| perception of fate or universe as malicious or indifferent to human suffering |
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| the quality in a work of lit that evokes high emotion |
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| a concrete object that represents something abstract - star of david |
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