English - Literary Terms

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Sonnet

14-lined poem with a specific rhyme scheme, Shakespeare vs. Petrarchan

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Soliloquy

a characters speech out loud TO THEMSELF when no other characters are around

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Monologue

long speech to other characters

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Aside

direct address to audience without other characters hearing

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Alliteration

repeating letters or sounds next to or close to each other

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Personification

giving human-like qualities to something that isn’t human

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Iambic Pentameter

5 metrical feet: each with one short/unstressed syllable followed by one long/stressed syllable

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Volta

turn of thought or argument:

Petrarchan in between octave and sestet

Shakespearean: before final couplet

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End Rhyme

rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses

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Vignettes

brief yet detailed descriptions of side stories

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Magical Realism

realistic view of world with magical elements → blurring fantasy and reality

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Couplet

two lines of verse in a poem in the same meter and usually joined by rhyme

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Metaphor & Extended Metaphor

comparing two things, not using “like” or “as” DIRECT COMPARISON,

extended: metaphor extends over multiple lines or stanzas → continuously developed

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Consonance

repetition of the same consonant sound in a line

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Assonance

repetition of vowels without the repetition of consonants

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Simile

comparing two things using “like” or “as”

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Apostrophe

showing possession

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Allusion

indirect or passing reference to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

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Internal Rhyme

rhyme between words at the end of a line or between different lines

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Rhyme Scheme

pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

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Imagery

descriptive language in literary work

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Paradox

statement that seems to go against common sense

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Pun

words that sound alike but have different meanings

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Onomatopoeia

formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (wolf howling, bee buzzing)

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Meter

pattern of beats in a line of poetry

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Iamb

one short/unstressed syllable followed by one long/stressed syllable

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Petrarchan Sonnet

8 & 6 lines following ABBA rhyme scheme

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Shakespearean Sonnet

“ abab cdcd efef gg” rhyme pattern IAMBIC PENTAMETER stanza structure with a volta

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