Lit Terms #7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
| Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers |
| Dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables |
| First-Person Narrative | a narrative or mode of storytelling in which the narrator appears as the 'I' recollecting his or her own part of the events related |
| Hexameter | a verse line having six metrical feet |
| Iambic | unstressed, stressed |
| Inference | the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation |
| Parable | a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
| Pastoral Elegy | a poem about death and idyllic rural life - often featuring shepherds |
| Pentameter | a verse line having five metrical feet |
| Periodic Sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause |
| Rhetorical Shift | a change in tone or attitude; key words include "but," "however," "even though," "although," "yet" |
| Slant Rhyme | words that almost rhyme |
| Soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections given to oneself |
| Spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables |
| Tetrameter | a verse line having four metrical feet |
| Trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables |
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