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Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement
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Hyperbole
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Latin for "in the midst of things". one of the conventions of epic poetry is that the action begins in the midst of things. For example, when the Illiad begins the Trojan War had already been going on for 7 years.
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In medias res
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Term for novels & poetry, not dramatic lit. it refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head. It is related, but not identical to stream of concsciousness. ______ tends to be coherentm as though the character were actually talking. Stream of consciousness is looser and much more given to fleeting mental impressions.
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Interior Monologue
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Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. When done badly it can give a stilted, atificial, look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse, but poets do it all the time. This type of messing with syntax is called poetic license.
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Inversion
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A statement that means opposite of what it seems to mean. an undertow of meaningt, sliding agaist the literal meaning of the words. whispers underneath the explicit statement, "Do you understand what I really mean?"
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Irony
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A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss
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Lament
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A satire.
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Lampoon
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Sentence that is complete before its end. "Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh, her complaining, and her terrible taste in shoes."
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Loose sentence
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Sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phase. "Despite Barbara's irritation at Jack's peculiar habit of picking between his toeswhile watching MTV and his terrible haircut, she loved him."
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Periodic sentence
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A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world (or the part that his poem is about). when describing a tone refers to a sweet melidiousness
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Lyric
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A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular)
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Masculine rhyme
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A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villiam mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure.
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Melodrama
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The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty
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Nemesis
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Impersonal or outside treatment of subject matter
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Objective
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Treatment of subject matter using the interior or personal view of a single ovserver and emotioanl
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Subjective
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