Term
|
Definition
| A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Ex:Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A character or force against which another character struggles. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A narrative poem written in 4 line stanzas, characterized by swift action; narrated in direct style. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The means by which writers present & reveal character. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity;consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The dictionary meaning of a word. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The resolution of the plot of a literary work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A run-on line of poetry in which logical & grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A brief witty poem, often satirical. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama, or an imagined character-a "fiction" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A form of language use in which writers & speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A metrical unit composed of stressed & unstressed syllables. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Poetry w/o a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A poetic line of 5 iambic feet. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A contrast or discrepancy between what is said what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life & in literature. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A form of language in which writers & speakers mean exactly what their words denote. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A poem that tells a story. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The voice & implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, & form. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity & consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, & overall poetic structure. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A humorous, mocking imitation of a literally of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful & even respectful in its playful imitation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts w/animate or living qualities. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The angle of vision from which a story is narrated. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The main character of a literary work. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A metrical foot w/ 2 unstressed syllables. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A 4-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines & the second 4 lines in a Petrarchan sonnet. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the of a play, novel, or story. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The matching of final vowel or consonants in two or more words. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A set of conflicts & crises that constitute that part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The time & place of a literary work that establish its context. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form-either w/similar or identical patterns or rhyme & meter, or w/variations from one stanza to another. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The grammatical order of words in a sentences of prose, verse, & dialogue. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject & characters of a work. |
|
|
