Heard rhythm

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Heard rhythm

• Actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it
  when it is read naturally.

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Italian sonnet

• Sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba
  and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or
  three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde.

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Literary fiction

• Fiction written with serious artistic intentions,
  providing an imagined experience yielding
  authentic insights into some significant aspect
  of life.

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Masculine rhyme

• Rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound
  is in the final syllable of the words involved.

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melodrama

• Type of drama related to tragedy but featuring
  sensational incidents, emphasizing plot at the
  expense of characterization, relying on cruder
  conflicts and having a happy ending.

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metaphor

• Figure of speech in which an implicit comparison
  is made between two things essentially unlike. It
  may take four forms.

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meter

• Regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical
  verse the measurable repetition of accented and
  unaccented syllables in poetry.

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metonymy

• Figure of speech in which some significant aspect
  or detail or an experience is used to represent
  the whole experience.

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Metrical variations

• Departures from the basic metrical pattern.

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hexameter

• Metrical line containing six feet

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iamb

• Foot consisting of one unaccented syllable
  followed by one accented syllable.

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Iambic meter

• Meter in which the majority of feet are iambs.

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imagery

• Representation through language of sense
  experience.

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Indeterminate ending

• Ending in which the central problem or conflict
  is left unresolved.

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Indirect presentation of character

• Method of characterization in which the author
  shows us a character in action, compelling us to
  infer what the character is like from what is
  said or done by the character.

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Internal rhyme

• Rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words
  occurs within the line

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irony

• Situation or a use of language involving some
  kind of incongruity or discrepancy.

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Verbal irony

• A figure of speech in which what is said is the
  opposite of what is meant.

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Dramatic irony

• Incongruity or discrepancy between what a
  character says or thinks and what the reader
  knows to be true.

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Irony of situation

• Incongruity between appearance and reality, or
  between expectation and fulfillment, or between
  the actual situation and what would seem
  appropriate.