English
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tennisluver on April 15, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Malopropism | A misuse of words, Especially through confusion caused by resemblance in sound |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration for effect |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined ex. Thunderous silence |
| Metrical foot | A group of syllables that serves as a unit of measure in poetry. Each foot contains one stressed syllable |
| Iamb | A specific type of metrical foot. A unit of two syllables, one unstressed syllable followed by one stessed |
| Iambic pentameter | Poetry in which each line consists of five iambic feet |
| Heroic couplet | Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter |
| Blank verse | Unturned poetry which has five iambic feet per line |
| Bard | A tribal poet singer in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| Deus ex machina | Literally god from machine in greek roman drama the god lowered to the stage by machinery to resolve the conflict and extricate the protagonist from difficult situations |
| Soliloquy | A speech in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener |
| Pun | A play on words, sometimes a different sense of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words |
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