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English 12 Lit termz
All the terms needed for the test that will ultimately kill you
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One of the two "voices" of verbs. Subject is doing the acting in the sentence. | Active Voice |
| A story or image with a distinct second meaning. In a narrative it follows a parallel between two or more levels of meaning. It can be used as a method of satire. | Allegory |
| The use of a similar or parallel idea to illustrate some significant features of a story or another idea | Analogy |
| The direct opposite (Usually followed by of or to) Also used as a rhetorical device | Antithesis |
| A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. | Apostrophe |
| archaic language | Old words and phrases that were regularly used in a language but are now less common. |
| Archetype | A theme, symbol,setting or character that embodies some essential element of human existence. |
| Anecdotal Evidence | Non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist evidence for convincing the reader of a bias on a controversial topic |
| Aside | Small speech spoken by a character to the audience or another character, hover the other characters on stage cannot hear. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in neighbouring words |
| Ballad Stanza | A quatrain in which the first and third lines have four stresses, while the second and forth have three. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| Catharsis | The purging of the emotions of pity and fear aroused by the actions of the tragic hero |
| Climatic order | In writing, there are patterns of organization as to how a writer will "grab" the reader to head her to the end of an idea. |
| Colloquial language | Informal expression not used in formal speech |
| Informal expressions used in daily speech, differing in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. | Colloquialism |
| Conceit | A far fetched or elaborate metaphor or simile, presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two dissimilar things or feelings |
| Further association that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its literal meaning | Connotation |
| The repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different. Coming home, hot foot | Consonance |
| The literal meaning of a word (dictionary Definition) | Denotation |
| Didactic | Intended to instruct. Morally instructive. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively |
| Harshness of sound or rhythm, either inadvertent or deliberate | Dissonance |
| Double entendre | A pun where the second meaning is usually sexual |
| Comedy usually occurs when some type of divergence from the normal or expected action takes place. It may also occur when a character acts in a way that is surprising or unexpected. | Dramatic form |
| A character that undergoes an important change in the course of the story | Dynamic Character |
| Elegy | An elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend of public figure, or reflecting seriously |
| Ellipsis | The omission of one or more words which, while essential to the grammatical structure of the sentence, are easily supplied by the reader |
| English Sonnet | Lyric poem composed of 14 lines of equal length: iambic pentameter. It contains three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg |
| Enjambment | The continuation of stuffing things together with no pauses |
| Epigram | Short, witty poem or a wittily condensed expression in prose |
| Epigraph | Quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter or poem as an indication of its theme |
| Euphemism | A mild delicate or indirect word or expression used in place of a plainer and more accurate one, which if stated plainly may be offensive, unpleasant or embarrassing. |
| Euphony | Sound patterns used in verse to achieve opposite effects: Opposite of cacophony |
| figurative language | An important resource in poetry and other writing whereby a writer uses |
| Free Verse | Form of poetry that does not conform to a regular meter, Line length or specific rhyme scheme |
| Half-Rhyme | An imperfect ehyme, where the final consonants of stressed syllables agree but the vowel sounds do not match (Cape/deep, cape/keep) |
| Hamartia | Greek word for error or failure: false step that the protagonist in a tragedy takes that will lead to his/her downfall |
| Heroic couplet | A rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines of poetry |
| Hubris | Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance |
| Idiom | An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. E.g: Kicks the bucket |
| Inversion | The reversal of the normally expected order of words, e.g.: said she, sweetly blew the breeze |
| Internal Rhyme | A poetic device by which two or more words rhyme within the same line of verse. |
| An appeal made to a muse or deity for help in composing the poem, especially in epic poems | Invocation |
| Irony | Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife... with which to kill your spouse for sleeping with the young soup chef who works at the Au Bon Pain. |
| Italian Sonnet (Petrachan) | Comprised of 14 rhyming lines of equal length: an octave (8 lines) of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a sestet (6 lines) which includes a turn in the argument (volta) |
| Jargon | Speech filled with unfamiliar terms to those not a member of a specific group for whom the terms have meaning in the context of their group only |
| Litotes | When a positive statement is made by denying its opposite e.g: This is no mean city (A.K.Ak its fantastic!) |
| Lyric | A fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling or meditation of a single speaker |
| melodrama | Exaggerates e.g melodramatic |
| Metaphor | A talent may Blossom |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech which replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it e.g: Press for journalism |
| Ode | An elaborately formal lyric poem often in the form of a lengthy ceremonious address to a person or abstract entity, always serious and elevated in tone |
| Oxymoron | Bittersweet |
| Paradox | A statement or expression that is self-contradictory e.g: everything i say is a lie |
| Parallelism | An arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences or verse lines, the effect being a balanced arrangement by the repetition or syntactic forms. |
| Pathetic fallacy | Rain clouds weep |
| Pathos | The quality in literature which stimulates pity, tenderness or sorrow in the reader |
| Petrachan Sonnet | 14 line poem divided into an octave - rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde avoiding the couplet |
| Soliloquy | A dramatic speech uttered by one character speaking aloud while alone on the stage |
| Subjective | Placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes , opinions |
| Synaesthesia | A blending or confusion of different kinds of sense-impression, in which one type of sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another e.g: referring to colours as 'loud' or 'warm' or sounds as 'smooth' |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech where something is referred to indirectly, either by naming only some part or constituent of it e.g: 'hand' for labourers |
| Syntax | The way in which words and clauses are ordered and connected so as to form sentences. |
| Tercet | A unit of three verse lines, either rhyming with one another r with neighbouring lines |
| Willanelle | A poem composed of an uneven number (Usually five) of tercets rhyming aba, with a final quatrain rhyming abaa. A form established in France in the 16th century and used chiefly for pastoral songs |
| Volta | Change in italian sonnets |
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