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Down: 2) A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem3) A short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy4) A detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work, also know as a conceit6) situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.7) A direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as to draw the connection.8) A work (also called an ecologue, a bucolic, or an idyll) that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherds who live a timeless, painless (and sheepless)11) 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.12) A verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas- five tercets(three-lined stanzas) and one quatrain (four-line stanza)13) A depiction in which a character’s characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd14) 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 characters15) Poetry that is characterized by varying lines/lengths, lack of tradition meter, and non-rhyming lines.20) Exaggerated languages; also called hyperbole23) A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns24) the location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another.25) A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song27) One who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel step mother, the femme fatale, etc29) poem written about or for a specific occasion public or private30) Ordinary language, the vernacular31) A drama in which a character (usually good and noble and of high rank) is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force.33) The acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story; the speaker; the “person” telling the story or poem35) A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience39) A work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original42) Any force that is in opposition to the main character, or protagonist.45) Language that is lofty, dignified, personal. Such diction is often used in narrative epic poetry46) The sense expressed by the tone of voice and/ or the mood of a piece of writing47) 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),48) The third part of plot structure, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing.51) the character who tells the story52) To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand55) The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances or parallel, words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas57) Recurrent designs, patters of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature60) The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author.62) A type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry or bells letters64) The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences65) More or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Across: 1) metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress syllable5) recurrent device, formula or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event.9) A statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true10) Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities.15) A legend or a short moral story often using animals as characters16) The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in intervening vowels17) A sentence that is not grammatically complete until the end18) The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants usually heard closely proximate stressed syllables19) Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection.21) A poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation22) Sentence grammatically complete and usually stating its main idea, before the end.26) 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 on28) specialized or technical language of a trade professional or similar group.32) A metrical foot in a poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed34) The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect36) 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),37) A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity38) language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech40) misleading term for theme the central idea or statement of a story or area of inquiry or explanation misleading because it suggests a simple packaged statement that pre-exists and for that simple communication of which the story is written41) Another name for concrete poetry; poetry that is shaped to look like an object.43) A question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered.44) When a part is used to signify a whole, as in All hands on deck49) A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical.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.53) textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward chorological framework54) That part of plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled.56) Word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes “buzz” is a good example.58) 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.59) “in the midst of things61) A generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work;63) An address or invocation to something this is inanimate66) the use of similar forms in writing for nous, verbs, phrases, or thoughts.67) The main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic68) What is suggested by a word, apart from what is explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word.69) A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or “stands for” something else.70) The development of action in a work, usually at the beginning71) A style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast passed more rapid prose72) A narrative poem that is, or originally was meant to be sung. Repletion and refrain73) A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance
 

 

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