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unstressed, stressed(foot)
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iambic
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homily
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sermon or lecture
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hyperbole
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obvious and intentional exaggeration.
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rising action
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conflict starts to unfold
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euphony
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agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, esp. a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words:
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theme
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the message about life/human nature that is told in a literary work
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atmosphere
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a surrounding or pervading mood, environment, or influence:
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motif
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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
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jongleur
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(in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
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denouement
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the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
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Allegory
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A form of extended metaphor where objects take on a symbolic meaning.
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words that imitate the sounds the name
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onomatopoeia
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concordance
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an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.
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tone
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prevailing character or style, as of manners, morals, or philosophical outlook:
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gongorism
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imitation of the ornate and intricate style of Góngora y Argote.
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philippic
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any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation.
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allusion
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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication:
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autobiography
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someone that writes a story based upon themselves
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didactic
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A _____ story, speech, essay or play is one in which the author's primary purpose is to instruct, teach, or moralize.
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audience
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the persons reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc.; public:
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chantey
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a sailors' song, esp. one sung in rhythm to work.
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rhyme
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identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
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falling rhythm
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a rhythmic pattern created by the succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable followed by one or more unaccented syllables.
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pleonasm
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the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
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parasynthesis
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the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
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assonance
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rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
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context clues
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clues given in the story that tell what might happen next, or what a word might mean
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the character says or does one thing, but means another(sarcasim)
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verbal irony
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canto
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one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.
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common meter
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a ballad stanza of four iambic lines and strict rhymes, often used in hymns, rhyming abcb or abab.
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libretto
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the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
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texture
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the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
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What is meter?
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It is the fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry that produces its rhythm.
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What is a ballad stanza?
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It's a stanza that usually consists of:1. An abab or abcb rhyme scheme.2. A 4 line stanza, known as a quatrain.3. Alternating lines of 4 pairs of syllables (called tetrameter), for a total of 8 syllables, and 3 pairs of syllables (called trimeter) for a total of 6 six syllables.Each pair is accented on the second syllable.
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the words of a poem are not in the usual grammatical construction
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inverted word order
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