Unit 4: Part 2 Literary Terms

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  1. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
    Lyric poetry expresses the personal thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
  2. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
    Ode: a serious, often intensely emotional poem that honors a person or thing.
  3. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
    Elegy: a solemn and formal poem about death.
  4. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
    Sonnet: a 14-line poem with a formal structure, specific meter, and rhyme scheme.
  5. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
    In addition to the descriptive, sensory language called imagery, one of the most distinctive qualities of poetry is its use of sound devices and figurative language.
  6. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
    • Rhyme: repetition of sounds at the ends of words, as in brake and lake
  7. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
    • Consonance: repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables that have different vowel sounds, as in speak and break
  8. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
    • Repetition: repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences
  9. figurative
    not literal
    Figurative language is language that is used imaginatively rather than literally.
  10. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
    • Simile: comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as
  11. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
    • Metaphor: comparison of two apparently unlike things without using like or as
  12. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
    • Oxymoron: juxtaposing two opposite or contradictory words to reveal a surprising truth
  13. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
    Sound Device—Alliteration: repetition of initial identical consonant sounds in accented syllables
  14. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
    Sound Device—Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds in accented syllables
  15. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
    Figurative Language—Personification: giving human traits to nonhuman things
  16. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
    Figurative Language—Apostrophe: a figure in which the speaker addresses an absent person
  17. romanticism
    impractical ideals and attitudes
    Romanticism was a late-eighteenth-century European literary movement.
  18. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
    The Romantics adopted a new and freer diction, or choice of words.
  19. narrative
    consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
    Unlike lyric poetry, which expresses the thoughts and feelings of a speaker, narrative poetry tells a story.
  20. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
    An unfamiliar word's context—words, phrases, or sentences around it—can provide clues to its meaning.
  21. Pindaric ode
    an ode form used by Pindar
    The Pindaric ode (named for the ancient Greek poet Pindar) uses groups of three stanzas, one of which differs in form from the other two.
  22. Horatian ode
    an ode with several stanzas
    Roman poets later developed the Horatian ode (also called homostrophic), which contains only one type of stanza.
  23. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
    A synonym is a word that has the same, or a similar, meaning as another word.
  24. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
    Words have denotations, which are their basic meanings, and also connotations, which are the feelings or ideas associated with them.
  25. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
    Words have denotations, which are their basic meanings, and also connotations, which are the feelings or ideas associated with them.
  26. antonym
    a word that expresses an opposite meaning
    An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
  27. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
    Analogies show the relationships between pairs of words.
  28. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
    Write an interior monologue—words a character speaks to himself or herself—in which a modern Byronic hero tells his or her story.
  29. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
    Remember that a pronoun stands for a noun. The noun is the antecedent.
  30. antecedent
    the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
    Remember that a pronoun stands for a noun. The noun is the antecedent.
  31. quotation
    a passage or expression that is cited
    Use a collection of quotations to find a statement containing one of the words.
Created on Fri Oct 23 14:21:02 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Oct 28 15:31:40 EDT 2020)

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