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Down: 1) figure of speech that emphasizes its subjects by conscious understatement for example eh understate “not bad” as a comment about something especially well done.2) one thing pictured as if it was something else, suggesting likeness or analogy between them.3) A work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original4) Exaggerated languages; also called hyperbole6) A question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered.7) Also called an English sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines, usually abab cdcd efefgg.9) A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical.10) A section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing11) The continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next.12) Ordinary language, the vernacular13) To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand14) The development of action in a work, usually at the beginning15) Another name for concrete poetry; poetry that is shaped to look like an object.19) situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.20) poem written about or for a specific occasion public or private22) A play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humo24) When a part is used to signify a whole, as in All hands on deck26) Perspective confined to a single character, whether a first person or a third person the reader cannot know for sure what is going on in the minds of other characters27) the location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another.31) Also called Italian sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into one section of eight lines (octave) and a second section of six lines (sestet),33) The main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic34) textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward chorological framework37) A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience38) Another name for concrete poetry; poetry that is shaped to look like an object.41) Retrospection where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narrative.42) A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song43) Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities.46) The third part of plot structure, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing.48) originally designed poems meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre;51) the character who tells the story52) The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances or parallel, words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas53) A metrical foot in a poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed54) A legend or a short moral story often using animals as characters57) The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences58) The person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem60) A figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second61) A direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as to draw the connection. Across: 4) Word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes “buzz” is a good example.5) “in the midst of things8) specialized or technical language of a trade professional or similar group.16) Any force that is in opposition to the main character, or protagonist.17) The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants usually heard closely proximate stressed syllables18) Language that is lofty, dignified, personal. Such diction is often used in narrative epic poetry21) The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in intervening vowels23) Sentence grammatically complete and usually stating its main idea, before the end.25) That part of plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled.28) A distinctive manner of expression; each author’s style is expressed through his or her diction, rhythm, imagery and so on29) A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns30) Recurrent designs, patters of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature32) A depiction in which a character’s characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd35) the use of similar forms in writing for nous, verbs, phrases, or thoughts.36) What is suggested by a word, apart from what is explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word.39) .A metrical foot in poetry that consist of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable40) An address or invocation to something this is inanimate44) One who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel step mother, the femme fatale, etc45) That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, and establishes the situation at the beginning of a story or play.47) A verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets(three-lined stanzas) and one quatrain (four-line stanza)49) the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech.50) also called unlimited focus: a perspective that can be seen from one characters view, then another’s, then another’s, or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time.55) A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity56) language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech59) A style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast passed more rapid prose62) A detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also know as a conceit63) A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure64) A common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain (a stanza of four lines) that alternates four-beat and three-beat lines: one and three are unrhymed iambic tetrameter (four beats),65) More or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.66) The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/ or the mood of a piece of writing67) The analysis of verse to show its meter68) metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress syllable69) A sentence that is not grammatically complete until the end70) A characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, such as gender, age, ethnic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status, and so on71) A verse from consisting of three-line stanzas in which the second line of each rhymes with the first and third of the next.72) Poetry that is characterized by varying lines/lengths, lack of tradition meter, and non-rhyming lines.
 

 

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