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a four line stanza rhymed ABCD with four feet in lines one and three and three in lines two and four.
" O mother, mother make my bed.
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| a propaganda technique that encourages people to think or act in some way simply because other people are doing it. |
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| a figure of speech which descends from the sublime to the ridiculous in an attempt to create a grandiose or pathetic effect. |
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| a tale or collection of tales written in mock epic, allegorical style in which the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical and the purpose is to teach a moral or social truth. (Orwell's Animal Farm.) |
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| (a fallacy)This fallacy occurs when someone assumes the truth of a statement to be proved without providing any evidence to support the statement. |
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| a substantial aspect of the Theatre (drama) of the Absurd and of the Absurd and of much modern fiction. The term describes sardonically humorous effects derived from mordant wit or grotesque situations that deal with anxiety, suffering, or death. The tone often one of resignation, anger or bitterness. ( the metamorphosis) |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost. |
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| a form of comedy, generally associated with stage performances, that achieves its effects through distortion, exaggeration and imitation. |
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| an antihero who is a romanticized but wicket character, a young, attractive male with a bad reputation. He defies authority and conventional morality and become paradoxically ennobled by his peculiar rejection of virtue. Byronic heroes are associated with destructive passions, selfish brooding, loneliness, intense introspection and fiery rebellion. (heathcliff in Wuthering Heights) |
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| a natural pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry. |
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| a word or phrase used every day in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found writing, usually permitted to a given area. |
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| a work of literature, especially a play, that has a happy ending. Comedies often show ordinary |
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| a play satirizing the fashions, manners and outlook on life of an artificial, highly sophisticated society. |
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| is the feeling created by a humorous action or speech that appears within a serious work of literature. It is often used to emphasize, by contrast, the seriousness of the main action. |
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| an unusual and surprising comparison between two very different things. This special kind of metaphor or complicated analogy is often the basis for a whole poem. It is also a whimsical, ingenious, extended metaphor in which an object, scene, person, situation or emotion is presented in terms of a simpler analogue, usually from nature or a context familiar to author and reader alike. |
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| anything that follows reasonably from something else. |
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a struggle between opposing forces.
(1) man vs. man, (2)man vs. self, (3)man vs. nature and (4) man vs. society. |
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| an association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary meaning. |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar vowel sounds. |
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| the process of observing and pointing out differences. |
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| any device or style or subject matter which has become, in its time and by reason of its habitual use, a recognized means of literary expression, an accepted element in technique. |
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| in the plot of a story or play is the turning point for the protagonist and often coincides with the climax of the story. |
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| a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. |
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| damning with faint praise |
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| (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised. |
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| is a metaphor that has been overused to the point that its original impact has been lost. |
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| a term used in literature or art history for the decline that marks the end of a great artistic period. general characteristic: self-consciousness, artificially, over-refinement and perversely. |
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| deals with the ideal of property. It stemmed from the classical authors and was used widely by the 17th and 18th century writers. It stressed that literary works had to be polished, dignified, clear, rational and elevated. |
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| is a form of argument in which the conclusion has to be true if the premises is true. |
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| a belief in the existence of a personal God who is manifested neither supernaturally in history nor in nature. |
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| a word's actual dictionary meaning as opposed to a word's connotative meaning. |
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| in a literary work, it is anything that happens after the resolution of the plot. At this point the central conflict is resolved, and the consequences for the protagonist are already decided. It is the tying up of loose ends. |
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| the belief that all apparent acts of the will are actually the result of causes which determine them. In classical literature, it may be fate. In Calvinistic teachings, it may be the predestined will of God. |
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| In classical literature, it refers to the tradition of continuing debate or discussion of eternally unresolved issues, such as beauty vs. truth or the individual vs. the state. |
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| instructiveness in a literary work, one of the purpose of which appears to be to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical or religious matters. |
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| to stray from the main subject in speaking or writing. |
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| a situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives. |
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| a cheaply made, often sensational and melodramatic paperback novel of history, crime or adventure, printed in America in the latter half of the 19th century. These novels were priced at ten cents each. |
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| a lamentation sung or recited at a funeral or composed in commemoration of a death; a sad song |
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| digressing from subject to subject; relating to discourse or modes of discourse |
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| harsh and inharmonious sounds that are discordant with the words and the rhythms surrounding them in a line or sentence. |
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| a type of drama allied to comedy, radically nonrealistic in both content and presentation, that emphasizes the absurdity, emptiness, or meaninglessness of life (The Metamorphosis) |
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| a character who is different at the end of the book than he/she was at the beginning. |
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| a solemn and formal lyric poem about death- often in tribute to a person who has died recently. Most written in formal, dignified language and are serious in tone. |
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| English comic and tragic plays produced during the Renaissance- during the last years of and the few years after Queen Elizabeth's reign. Thus, Shakespeare is an Elizabethan dramatic, although more than 1/3 of his active career lies in the reign of James I who succeeded Queen Elizabeth I to the throne. -Elizabethan Era is the golden age of English drama. |
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| the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context. |
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| a philosophical movement of the 18th century, particularly in France but effectively over much of Europe and America. The Enlightenment celebrated reason, the scientific method and human beings' ability to perfect themselves and society. |
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| a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, semicolon, examination point, or question mark are end-stopped lines. |
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| a long, narrative poem about the adventures of the gods or of a hero. |
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