H-I Lit terms
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jessicacook155 on February 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hamartia | greek for error...an offence committed in ignorance of some aterial fact and therefore free of blameworthyness (tragic flaw) ex oedipus Rex |
| Hubris | Overweening pride, outrageous behavior or the insolence that leads to ruin. ex King Lear |
| Hyperbole | Overstatement...exageration used to emphasize a point |
| iamb | most common in english...metrical foot in verse in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one |
| implied metaphor | a metaphor that uses neither connections nor the word "to be" |
| Incremental Refrain | Refrain whose words change slightly with each recurrence |
| Initiation story | narrative in which the main character, usually a child, undergoes an important experience(difficult) that prepares him for adult hood. ex owen meany |
| Innocent narrator | a character fails to understand all implications of the staory he or she tells. used to generate irony sympathy or pity by creating a gap between what the narrater knows andwhat the reader knows. ex huck finn |
| Interior monologue | an extended presentation of a characters thoughts in a narrative. usually written in present tense, without quotation marks. |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry |
| Irony | a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. Irony is present when a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite. |
| Italian Sonnet | sonnet with rhyne pattern for the first 8 lines. abba, abba, the final six lines may follow any pattern |
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