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Term: iamb
1 unstressed / 2 stressed syllables
1 unstressed / 1 stressed syllable
1 stressed / 1 unstressed syllable
2 unstressed / 1 stressed syllable
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Term: motif
Recurring literary devices that develop major themes
Objects, figures or colors used to represent abstract ideas
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Term: trope
Definition: the use of functional language
Definition: any figurative language device
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Term: tetrameter
2 metrical feet
4 metrical feet
3 metrical feet
5 metrical feet
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Term: denouement
Definition: the opening scene of a play
Definition: the result of an action, plan or plot
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Term: omniscient narrator
Definition: an 'all-seeing' narrative perspective
Definition: a biased viewpoint of storytelling
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Term: sonnet
Definition: a 14 line poem with a strict rhyme scheme
Definition: a short poem written by Shakespeare or Petrarch
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Term: ballad (as in poetry)
Definition: use of free verse with no rhyme
Definition: use of a simple ABAB rhyme scheme
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Term: pathetic fallacy
Definition: the personification of weather
Definition: the use of setting/weather to convey human mood
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Term: Colloquial
Definition: formal language used in a speech
Definition: informal language used in conversation
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Term: dimeter
5 metrical feet
2 metrical feet
3 metrical feet
4 metrical feet
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Term: hubris
Definition: excessive pride
Definition: moral flaw
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Definition: metrical 'foot'
Definition: usually 2 stressed syllables
Definition: usually 1 unstressed & 1 stressed syllable
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Term: unreliable narrator
Definition: a narrator who is 'all-seeing'
Definition: a flawed narrator who is biased / often mistaken
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Term: anagnorisis
Definition: when a character overcomes their flaws
Definition: when a character makes a critical discovery
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Term: hexameter
4 metrical feet
3 metrical feet
5 metrical feet
6 metrical feet
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Term: pyrrhic
stressed / unstressed
unstressed / unstressed
stressed / stressed
unstressed / stressed
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Term: heptameter
9 metrical feet
7 metrical feet
5 metrical feet
3 metrical feet
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Term: spondee
stressed / unstressed
unstressed / stressed
stressed / stressed
unstressed / unstressed
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Term: pentameter
3 metrical feet
4 metrical feet
2 metrical feet
5 metrical feet
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Term: trimeter
2 metrical feet
3 metrical feet
5 metrical feet
4 metrical feet
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Term: refrain
Definition: the repetition of the start of a line of poetry
Definition: a repeated line in a poem
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Term: dactyl
stressed / unstressed / stressed
unstressed / stressed / unstressed
stressed / unstressed / unstressed
stressed / stressed / unstressed
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Term: anapest
stressed / unstressed / unstressed
unstressed / unstressed / stressed
stressed / unstressed / stressed
stressed / stressed / unstressed
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Term: trochee
unstressed / stressed
unstressed / unstressed
stressed / unstressed
stressed / stressed
