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Literary Vocabulary
Alliteration
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English
12th Grade
05/21/2012

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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of the first consonant sound
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Antagonist
Definition
opponent, rival, competitor, enemy
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Assonance
Definition
repetition of the first vowel sound
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Sonnet
Definition
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
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Heroic Couplet
Definition
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters
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Epic
Definition
an illiterate population can learn and pass values and traditions through oral tradition
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Personification
Definition
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
5 sets of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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In Medias Rhyme
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
occurs in the middle of a line.
example: Whiles all the night through fog-smoke white
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Irony
Definition
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
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Simile
Definition
a comparison using like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
a comparison without using like or as
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Mock Epic
Definition
long narrative poem presenting the adventures on a grand scale-- everything is bigger than life.
-Has a centric heroic figure
-It has self contained stories but build together
-beginnings of a race or nation of people
-contains supernatural elements
-never ending battle between good and bad
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Ode
Definition
a poem tale
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Oxymoron
Definition
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear
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Hyperbole
Definition
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
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Protagonist
Definition
leading character in any fictional text
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Soliloquy
Definition
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
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Satire
Definition
ridicule of weaknesses, vices, follies of groups types institutions, in order to change them!
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