Continuous form

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Continuous form

• Form of a poem in which the lines follow each
  other without formal grouping, the only breaks
  being dictated by units of meaning

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Couplet

• Two successive lines, usually in the same meter,
  linked by rhyme.

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dactyl

• A metrical foot consisting of one accented
  syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.

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Dactylic meter

• A meter in which a majority of the feet are
  dactyls.

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denotation

• The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a
  word

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denouement

• That portion of a plot that reveals the final
  outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its
  mysteries.

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Deus ex machina

• Resolution of a plot by use of a highly
  improbable chance or coincidence.

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Didactic writing

• Poetry, fiction, or drama having as a primary
  purpose to teach or to preach.

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dilemma

• A situation in which a character must choose
  between two courses of action, both undesirable.

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dimeter

• A metrical line containing two feet.

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Direct presentation of character

• The author, by exposition or analysis, tells us
  directly what a character is like, or has someone
  else in the story do so.

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Double rhyme

• Rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the
  second last syllable of the words involved.

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Dramatic convention

• Any dramatic device which, though it departs from
  reality, is implicitly accepted by author and
  audience as a means of representing reality.

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Dramatic exposition

• The presentation through dialogue of information
  about events that occurred before the action of a
  play, or offstage, or between the staged actions.

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Dramatic framework

• Situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic
  or fanciful, in which an author places his or her
  character in order to express the theme.

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dramatization

• Presentation of character or of emotion through
  the speech or action of characters rather than
  through exposition, analyses, or description by
  the author.

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Duple meter

• Meter in which a majority of the feet contain two
  syllables.

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editorializing

• Writing that departs from the narrative or
  dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to
  think or feel about the events of a story or the
  behavior of a character.

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End rhyme

• Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines.

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End-stopped line

• A line that ends with a natural speech pause,
  usually marked by punctuation.