Engwish 2

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hubris

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The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death.

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hyperbole

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Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

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hubris

The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death.

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hyperbole

Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

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in media res

A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point.

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invective

A direct verbal assault; a denunciation.

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irony

A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is reverse of what might have been expected.

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litotes

A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity.

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lyric poetry

Personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker’s thoughts and feeling about the subject.

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metaphor

A figure of speech that compares unlike objects.

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meter

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry.

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metonymy

A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated.

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mock epic

A parody of traditional epic form.

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It usually treads a frivolous topic with extreme seriousness, using conventions such as invocations to the Muse, actions-packed battled scenes, and accounts of heroic exploits.

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motif

A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature.

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naturalism

A term often used as a synonym for realism; also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic.

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non sequitur

A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.

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novel of manners

A novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group.

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ode

a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings towards the subject.

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paradox

A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true.

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parody

An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject.

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pastoral

A work of literature dealing with rural life.

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pathetic fallacy

Faculty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects.