ENGLISH VOCAB PART I
Terms
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- abstract
- qualities & characteristics isolated as pure ideas.
- allegory
- extended metaphor-narrative in which the objects & persons are equated with meanings lying outside the personifications
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonants, particularly initial consonants
- allusion
- a reference to some event, person, or place or literary or historical significance
- ambiguity
- multiplicity of meaning
- assonance
- identity of vowel sounds, as in the words "scream" and "Beach".
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- cacophony
- harshness or dissonance. a succesion of harsh, slow moving syllables.
- closed couplet
- two lines of rhymed iambic pentameter
- connotation
- implied meaning & associations
- denotation
- a word's specific signification
- diction
- the choice of words in poetry or in any other form.
- euphony
- agreeableness of sound. a succession of light, harmonious syllables
- free verse
- does not conform to any fixed pattern
- image, imagery
- representation in poetry of any sense experience.
- irony
- discrepancy between what is said & what is mean
- understatement
- discrepancy, great or small, between what is actually said & what might be said
- onomatopoeia
- words which have been developed, as a matter of fact, in imitation of the sounds they designate. ex. "hiss" & "bang"
- quatrain
- a stanza consisting of four lines
- sextet
- the last six lines of a sonnet, in which the poet presents the conclusion she/he has drawn from the theme
- stock response
- the general uncritical response made on conventional or habitual grounds to a situation, subject, phrase or word.
- symbol
- a "sign" pointing to meanings
- metonomy
- the use of an attribute of an object to represent the object
- synecdoche
- substitutes a significant part of something for the thing itself
- iambic
- an unaccented followed by an accented syllable (avoid)
- anapest
- two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable (intervene)
- trochee
- one accented followed by one unaccented syllable (only)
- dactyl
- one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (happily)