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heard rhythm |
the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally |
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heptameter |
a metrical line containing seven feet |
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hexameter |
a metrical line containing six feet |
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hyperbole |
a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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iamb |
a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
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iambic meter |
a meter in which the majority of feet are iambs |
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imagery |
the representation through language of sense experience |
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internal rhyme |
a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line |
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irony |
a situation involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy |
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verbal irony |
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said |
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dramatic irony |
a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker |
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situational irony |
a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem apporpriate |
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italian sonnet |
a sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbbaabbba |
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limerick |
a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, riming aabba |
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masculine rime |
a rime in which the pepeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved |
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metaphor |
a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike |
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meter |
regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in whcih the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time |
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metonymy |
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect is used to represent the whole experience (The White House has decided...) |
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monometer |
a metrical line containing one foot |
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monosyllable foot |
a foot consisting of a single accented syllable |
