dimensions of literature
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nickgornick Plus on March 6, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accentual-syllabic verse | verse that focuses on the number of syllables per line, and the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables to determine its rhythm |
| allusion | brief reference to a historical or literary person, event, or object |
| alliteration | repeated initial consonant or vowell that sounds adjacent in words or syllables |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words (lake, fake, cake) |
| aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; morning after love making |
| blank verse | regular rhythmic verse that is unrhymed, usually iambic pentameter |
| caesura | punctuated pause within a line |
| carpe diem | "seize the day" living life to the fullest |
| chiasmus | "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" |
| conceit | extended or elaborate metaphor or simile, sustained through the whole poem |
| enjambement | continuation without punctuation from one line of poetry to the next |
| heroic couplet | pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter |
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