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a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors |
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a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface |
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the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history |
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| a metrical foot consisting of 2 unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests |
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| a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply |
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| a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| a speech pause occuring within a line |
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| what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning |
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| two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by 2 unaccented syllables |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls |
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| the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| poetry having a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| a metrical line containing 2 feet |
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| the situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet contain two syllables. Iambic and trochaic are both duple meters |
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| rhymes that occur at the ends of lines |
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| a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation |
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| English or Shakespearean sonnet |
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| a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. It's content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet |
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| a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem |
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| a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem |
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| in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines; these may be either a feature of metrical form of a poem or occur as exceptions to the form. in iambic they occur at the end of the line; in trochaic at the beginning |
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| a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or the third-last syllable of the words involved |
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| language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally |
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| broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another |
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| any form of poetry in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as a sonnet or villanelle |
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| a narrative poem designed to be sun, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down |
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| the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse; usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables |
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| the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content |
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| nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breas and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms |
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| a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation |
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| the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally. |
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| a metrical line containing 6 feet |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet are iambs; the most common English meter |
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| the representation through language of sense experience |
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| a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line |
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| a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy |
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| a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said. |
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| a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work |
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| an occurence in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate, or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass |
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| Italian or Petrarchan sonnet |
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| a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of 2 or 3 additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde |
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| a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved |
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| a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between 2 things essentially unlike. |
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| both named; named and implied; implied and named; both implied |
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| the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
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| a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. |
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| departures from the basic metrical pattern |
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| a metrical line containined 1 foot |
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| 1. an eight line stanza or 2. the first 8 lines of a sonnet, especially the Italian sonnet |
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| the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound |
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| a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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| a compact paradox in which 2 successive words seemingly contradict each other |
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| a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
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| a situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements |
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| a restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible |
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| a metrical line containing five feet |
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| a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept |
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| a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning; do not refer explicitly to sounds |
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| that part of a poem's total meaning that can be seperated out and expressed through paraphrase |
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| usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse |
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| 1. a 4 line stanza or 2. a 4 line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form |
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| poetry using artificially eloquent language; that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience |
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| a natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its paraphrasing or syntax |
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| in natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing or words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure |
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| any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound |
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| the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words |
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| any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas |
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| a line that has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line |
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| bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed |
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| a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice |
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| the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern |
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| poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader's emotions in order to acheive a greater emotional response than the poem itself warrants |
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| 1. a 6 line stanza 2. the last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet |
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| a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike; made by using some word or phrase |
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| a fixed form of 14 lines normally iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one or two of the main types |
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| a metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables equally or almost equally accented |
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| a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem |
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| the form of a poem written in a series of units having the same # of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme |
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| the internal organization of a poem's content |
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| in metrical verse, the replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one |
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| verse measured by the # of syllables rather than the # of feet per line |
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| a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is |
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
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presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation |
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| an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc. |
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| a metrical line containing 4 feet |
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| the central idea of a literary work |
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| the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience or herself/himself; the emotional coloring or emotional meaning of a work |
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| the total experience communicated by a poem |
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| a metrical line containing 3 feet |
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| a meter in which a majority of the feet contain 3 syllables |
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| a meter in which the majority of feet are trochees |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable |
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| in metrical verse, the omission of an unaccented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable |
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| a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants |
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| metrical language; opposite of prose |
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| a 19-line fixed form consisting of 5 tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in an alternating pattern through line 15 and then repeated as lones 18 and 19 |
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