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11. anapest A metrical FOOT consisting of three syllables, with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one. 17. assonance (as in poetry ) o Same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. Assonance differs from RHYME in that RHYME is a similarity of vowel and consonant. Lake and fake demonstrate RHYME; lake and fate assonance . 20. bard o In modern use, simply a POET. Historically the term refers to poets who recited verses glorifying the deeds of heroes and leaders to the accompaniment of musical instrument such as the harp . 25. catharsis o In the Poetics Aristotle, in defining TRAGEDY. Sees it objective as being through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [ catharsis ]of these emotions, 25. catharsis o but he does not explain what proper purgation means. Whatever Aristotle means thereby, catharsis remains one of the great unsettled issues. 26. character o It is a brief descriptive SKETCH of a personage who typifies dome definite quality. 26. character Lennie Small Don Quixote . climax o A rhetorical term for a rising order of importance in the ideas expressed, Such an arrangement is called climatic, and the item of greatest importance is called the climax . 28. climax H.G. Wells 30. conflict o The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. Conflict provides interest suspense, and tension. 11.
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1.) a struggle against nature 2.) a struggle against another person, usually the ANTAGONIST 3.) a struggle against society 4.) a struggle for mastery by two elements within the person 12. couplet o Two consecutive lines of VERSE with END RHYMES. 32. couplet T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound 13. 36. didactic novel o Any novel plainly designed to teach a lesson, it is properly used as a synonym for the EDUCATION NOVEL. 14. 36. didactic novel The Jungle Upton Sinclair 15. 43. epic A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming and organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race. The epic itself is the product of a single genius 16. euphemism o A device in which indirectness replaces directness of statement, usually in an effort to avoid offensiveness. 45. euphemism husky big-boned hefty portly plump fluffy 17. 49. foot (as in poetry) o The unit of rhythm in verse, whether QUANTITATIVE or ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC. 18. 49. foot (as in poetry) William Blake 19. 64. masque o In medieval Europe there existed, partly as survivals or adaptations of ancient pagan seasonal ceremonies, species of games or SPECTACLES characterized by a procession of masked figures. 20. 64. masque Romeo and Juliet Edgar Allan Poe 21. 68. meter (as in poetry) o The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern, or the RHYTHM established by the regular occurrence of similar units of sound. The four basic kinds of rhythmic patters are: 68. meter (as in poetry) (cont.) 22. 77. ode

o A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme. 23. 77. ode John Keats 24. 78. Oedipus Complex o In psychoanalysis a libidinal feeling that develops in a child, especially a male child, between the ages of three and six, for the parent of the opposite sex. This attachment is generally accompanied by hostility to the parent of the childs own sex.

78. Oedipus Complex (cont.) Oedipus & the Sphinx 25. 80. onomatopoeia o Words that by their sound suggest their meaning: hiss, buzz, whirr, sizzle. 26. 80. onomatopoeia 27. 81. oxymoron o A self-contradictory combination of worlds or smaller verbal units. Oxymoron itself is an oxymoron , from the Greek meaning sharp-dull. 28. 87. personification o A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and animate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence and emotions. 29. 87. personification 30. 88. Petrarchan Sonnet o The ITALIAN SONNET A SONNET divided into an OCTAVE rhyming abbaabba and a SESTET rhyming cdecde . 31. 115. Shakespearean Sonnet o The ENGLISH SONNET, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg . It is called the Shakespearean sonnet because Shakespeare was its most distinguished practitioner. 32. 120. stanza o A recurrent grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and, often, rhyme scheme. However, the division into stanzas is sometimes mad according to thought as well as form, in which case the stanza is a unit like a prose paragraph. 33. 120. stanza 34. I dont like to read books; they muss up my mind. -Henry Ford 35. 129. Theatre of the Absurd o It expounds and existential ideology and views its task as essentially metaphysical. The most widely acclaimed play of the school is Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot (1953). 36. 129. Theatre of the Absurd Samuel Beckett 37. 130. theme o A central idea. Both theme and thesis imply a subject and a predicate of some kindnot just vice in general, say, but some such proposition as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. 38. 134. tragedy o A term with many meanings and applications. In drama it refers to a particular kind of play, the definition of which was established by Aristotles Poetics , in narrative, particularly in Middle Ages, it refers to a body of work recounting the fall of a persons of high degree. 39. 135. tragic flaw o The theory that there is a flaw in the tragic hero that causes his or her downfall. The theory has been revised or refuted by criticism that considers the supposed flaw as an integral and even defining part to the protagonist's character.