Brit Lit
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- Apostrophe
- talking to something that can't respond. ie: absent figure or inanimate object
- aural imagery
- appeal to the auditory senses
- cacophony
- harsh and resonant sounds adding to the tone
- caesura
- A pause in a line of verse
- conceit
- an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
- dramatic irony
- something happens which no one expected to happen
- elements of a sonnet
- -generic to specific
- ellipsis
- lack of words, letters ex: over (o'er) it is ('tis)
- ethos, pathos, logos
- appeal to credibility appeal to emotions appeal to reasoning
- euphony
- long flowing words, unlike cacophony
- eye rhyme
- spelled the same "pint" and "lint"
- gustatory imagery
- appeal to taste
- hyperbole
- great exaggeration
- iambic pentameter
- metric patter of stressed then unstressed - 10 syllables
- internal rhyme (middle rhyme)
- rhyming which occurs within the line, not on the end comme d'habitude
- kenning
- compound poetic phrase used to describe a noun
- meiosis
- understatement; not hyperbole
- metaphor
- no "like" or "as" but still comparing two ideas
- metonymy
- an associated thing stands in for another
- near rhyme
- imperfect rhyme (died and dry) sounds are similar but not on
- olfactory imagery
- appeal to the nose/smell
- ORDER OF WORKS!
- Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, Grendel, Morality Play
- prose format
- the basic format for any and all essays
- satire
- irony, sarcasm in a piece of literary work
- similie
- comparison using "like" or "as"
- situational irony
- audience knows what's happening but the character doesn't
- soliloquy
- digressive speech from a play ex: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Henry V
- Synecdoche
- part of the whole stands in for the entirety
- tactile imagery
- appeal to the touch
- visual imagery
- appeal to les yeux