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| a rhyme of two or more syllables with a stress on a syllable other than the last one (e.g. history/mystery) | |
| language that evokes one or all of the five senses | |
| the combination of two or more words to create a new word (e.g. web log = blog) | |
| a type of personification that attributes human characteristics to nature | |
| a ghostly double of another character, especially if it haunts its counterpart | |
| a three-line unit or stanza of poetry | |
| when an absent person, abstract concept, important object, or personification is directly addressed (e.g. 'O Death, be not proud') | |
| the character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends | |
| sometimes called an imperfect, forced, or approximate rhyme | |
| when one or more smaller stories are included within the body of a larger story | |
| a protagonist who is a non-hero or the opposite of a traditional hero | |
| a lyric poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter; the 3 main types are Shakespearean, Petrarchan, and Miltonic | |
| a 2 syllable poetic foot of stressed followed by unstressed (e.g. heavy, double, chosen) | |
| a 3 lined Japanese poem of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables | |
| a narrative in which an adolescent protagonist comes to adulthood by a process of experience and disillusionment; often called a 'coming-of-age' story | |
| the main character in a work of fiction | |
| the repetition of a word or phrase, usually at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs | |
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| literally means 'missing the mark'; applies to a tragic flaw or lack of some important insight | |
| a stanza of 4 lines | |
| a central idea or statement that unifies and controls a literary work | |
| a recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, or reference in a work of literature | |
| describes a work that focuses on simple, rural life | |
| a 2-syllable foot of poetry of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (e.g. behold, amuse, inject) | |
| repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause (e.g. 'talent is an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment') | |
| also called circumlocution, it is when one 'beats around the bush' instead of getting directly to the point (e.g. 'The reason I took your picture was in order to make a dartboard') | |
| figurative language that uses a part to represent the whole (e.g. 'lend me your ears') | |
| type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first (e.g. 'Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike') | |
| an arrangement of lines in poetry usually in a fixed number of verses or lines; quatrains, tercets, and couplets are examples of these poetic paragraphs | |
| poetry that consists of 5 feet in each line | |
| a type of rhyme that occurs either in single syllable words or at the end of polysyllabic words (e.g. grade/shade or betray/away) | |
| the literal dictionary definition of a word | |
| 'the spirit of the age'; the general cultural, historical, etc climate of a particular group at a particular time | |
| the stylistic level of a word; its degree of formality | |
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