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2-Literary Terms You Should Know

Horizontales
The humourous imitation of a work of literature, art, or music.
__ Rima is a form of eight-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of abababcc.
The balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences.
The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.
A characteer who sets off another character by contrast.
__ Repetition is the repetition of a pervious line, or lines, but with a slight variation each time, that advances the narrativ e stanza by stanza. This device is commonly used in ballads.
Usually a stanza or a poem of four lines.
A concise statement expressing a principle or rule of conduct.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
In old English poetry, an elaborate phrase that describes persons, things, or events in a metaphorical and indirect way.
A break or pause in a line of poetry.
The technique of reversing, or inverting, the normal word order (subject, verb, object) of a sentence. Think Yoda from Star Wars.
A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza.
Verticales
An eight-line poem or stanza.
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.
A section or division of a long poem.
A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.
The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity, sorrow, or compassion for a character.
A technique of plunging into the middle of a story and only later using a flashback to tell what has happened previously. (This term consists of three Latin words).
A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
At the beginning of an epic (or other poem) a call to a muse, god or spirit for inspiration.
A moment of illumination, usually occuring at or near the end of a work.
The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work.
A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier.
A writer's choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.
A __ poem is one that tells a story.
One who narrates, or tells, a story.
A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things.
The person who speaks in a literary work, from the Latin word for mask.
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllbles in poetry.