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10-18-2007, 08:31 PM
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Ive got these defs due tomorrow and my printer ran out of ink. Copied it here so i can print it out at school since they blocked out email. mods can lock after 10:00am tomorrow. thanks
Jared Anding
Mrs. Echols
10-19-07
English IV
Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
Allusion - A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing, that is know from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
Assonance - The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Ballad - A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
Blank Verse - Poetry written in unrhymed iambic.
Couplet - Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
Epic - A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
Figurative Language - Language that intentionally departs from the normal construction or meaning of words in order to create a certain effect or to make an analogy between two seemingly dissimilar things.
Figure of Speech - A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms or another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level.
Iambic Pentameter - A line of poetry made up of five iambs.
Imagery - Language that appeals to the senses.
Irony - A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality--between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true.
Lyric Poetry - Poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story.
Metaphor - A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seeming unlike things without using a connective word like, as, then, or resembles.
Meter - A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Mood - The mood or feeling in a literary work.
Motif - In literature, a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works.
Octave - An eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet.
Ode - A complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject.
Quatrain - A four-line stanza or poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme.
Rhyme - The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhythm - The alternation of stressed and un -stressed syllables in language.
Romanticism -A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that developed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a reaction against neoclassicism.
Simile - A figure of speech that makes a comparison two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Sonnet - A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually writen in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes.
Stanza - A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
Style - The manner in which writers or speakers say what they wish to say.
Symbol - A person, place, thing, or event, that stands both f or itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism - A literary movement that began in France during the late nineteenth century and advocated the use of highly personal symbols to suggest ideas, emotions, and moods.
Theme - The Central idea or insight of a work of literature.
Tone - The attitude of a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character.
Jared Anding
Mrs. Echols
10-19-07
English IV
Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
Allusion - A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing, that is know from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
Assonance - The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Ballad - A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
Blank Verse - Poetry written in unrhymed iambic.
Couplet - Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
Epic - A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
Figurative Language - Language that intentionally departs from the normal construction or meaning of words in order to create a certain effect or to make an analogy between two seemingly dissimilar things.
Figure of Speech - A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms or another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level.
Iambic Pentameter - A line of poetry made up of five iambs.
Imagery - Language that appeals to the senses.
Irony - A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality--between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true.
Lyric Poetry - Poetry that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story.
Metaphor - A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seeming unlike things without using a connective word like, as, then, or resembles.
Meter - A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Mood - The mood or feeling in a literary work.
Motif - In literature, a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works.
Octave - An eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet.
Ode - A complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject.
Quatrain - A four-line stanza or poem or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme.
Rhyme - The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhythm - The alternation of stressed and un -stressed syllables in language.
Romanticism -A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that developed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a reaction against neoclassicism.
Simile - A figure of speech that makes a comparison two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Sonnet - A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually writen in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes.
Stanza - A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
Style - The manner in which writers or speakers say what they wish to say.
Symbol - A person, place, thing, or event, that stands both f or itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism - A literary movement that began in France during the late nineteenth century and advocated the use of highly personal symbols to suggest ideas, emotions, and moods.
Theme - The Central idea or insight of a work of literature.
Tone - The attitude of a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character.
10-19-2007, 12:02 AM
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LOL.
club240 is so useful.
club240 is so useful.
10-19-2007, 09:13 AM
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urge to change definitions rising.... rising..... rising.....
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