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"The author tells the story using third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of only one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears" (Perrine and Arp 1413).
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What is limited omniscient third person POV?
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"A minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus by contrast sets off or illuminates the major character" (Perrine and Arp 1406).
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What is a foil?
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A lengthy passage in literature where a character examines his/her own thoughts and feelings. (It is meant to mirror the character’s subconscious.)
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What is stream of consciousness?
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"Writing that exploits the speech, dress, mannerisms, habits of thought, and topography peculiar to a certain region." (Holman and Harmon).
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What is local color?
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A novel where the narrative is carried forward by letters written by one or more of the characters.
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What is an epistolary novel?
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A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.
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What is iambic pentameter?
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
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What is assonance?
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A line which does not end with a grammatical break -- that is where the line cannot stand alone and cannot make sense without the following line
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What is an enjambed line?
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Poetry written in unrhymed
iambic pentameter.
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What is blank verse?
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An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image (usually an extended metaphor)
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What is a conceit?
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A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter
A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The lines are grouped in three quatrains with alternating rhymes (ababcdcdefef) followed by an heroic couplet (gg) that is usually epigrammatic.
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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
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A poem of mourning
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What is an elegy?
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A long, narrative poem about the adventures of a hero
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What is an epic?
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A long, lyric poem on a single topic – it is usually meditative or philosophical
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What is an ode?
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Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."
A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas --five tercets and a concluding quatrain. Examples include Bishop's "One Art," Roethke's "The Waking," and Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."
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What is a villanelle?
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One of the characteristics of a tragic hero--pride and arrogance.
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What is hubris?
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Aristotle's term for the emotional experience the audience feels after a tragedy.
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What is catharsis?
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A speech in which a character, on stage alone, voices his or her thoughts or intentions aloud, revealing them to the audience while still hiding them from their fellow characters.
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What is a soliloquy?
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A short speech that a character makes in a play
A short speech that a character makes in a play. Only the audience hears the speech while the rest of the characters are deaf to the words.
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What is an aside?
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The point at which tension slackens after the climax at the end of the play. It can also be the that portion at the end of the plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries.
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What is the denouement?
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"The expression of an idea in language that gives more than one meaning and leaves uncertainty as to the intended significance of the statement."
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What is ambiguity?
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A concept or story element that recurs in literature.
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What is a motif?
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A method to arouse laughter at targets such as individuals, types of people, groups, or human nature. Often satire is used to correct human faults.
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What is satire?
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"Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses" (Corbett 428). In other words, equivalent items (those joined by coordinate conjunctions) must be placed in comparable grammatical structures.
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What is a parallelism?
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The quality in art and literature that stimulates pity, tenderness, or sorrow (Smith).
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What is pathos?
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A syntactical term for the placing side by side two nouns, the second of which serves as an explanation of the first.
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What is apposition?
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