Jargon pt.2

• lines of 10 syllables divided into 5 unstressed/stressed feet called iambs
• ex: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

• Verbal: sarcasm
• Situational: somethin different than what was expected happens
• - ex: couple going to divorce and end up remarrying
• Dramatic: reader knows what will happen but characters do not
• - ex: Romeo kills himself because he thinks Juliet is dead
• Tragic: similar to dramatic, but is always performed in a play
• - ex: Oedipus voqing to puish the man that killed his father, and only the viewers know that he is vowing to punish himself

• two extremely different ideas put together for dramatic effect
• ex: Give me an unbiased opinion

• light hearted poem
• can be serious but is very casual

• 5-line poem, often with comic content
• aaba pattern
• ex: There once was an artist named Saint / Who swallowed some samples of paint / All shades of the spectrum / Flowed out of his rectum / With a colourful lack of restraint.

• a form of understatement which states the opposite of a negative
• ex: The damage to the car was not insignificant

• personal, subjective, emotional poem
• rhymes

• dramatic romance stories that have singing, dancing, and music
• ex: High School Musical

• using an object closely associated with a larger whole
• to represent that whole
• ex: Lend me your ear

• a conspicuous recurrent element that appears frequently in the story
• ex: the number 23

• statement that seems contradictory but which, upon deeper examination, contains truth
• ex: Youth is wasted on the young

• establishing a pattern in grammatical structure and length and style
• ex: That government of the people, by the people, and for the people

• attempt to touch the reader emotionally
• usually a pitiful feeling for the suffering

• environment complements the emotion of the character
• ex: It rains when the character is sad

repetition of a phrase in a prose or poetry

the art of using language to persuade and convince

• a novel in which the author has used real life/history in slightly disguised but still recognizable form for characters, plot and/or setting
• ex: King Arthur's Adventures

showing foolishness of the human, government, or society using sarcasm, irony, or ridicule

the process of measuring the rhythm of a poem by counting the stressed/unstressed syllables to determine the meter

• a monologue spoken by a character when he is alone
• usually addressed to the stars and sky
• reveals the innermost feelings
• ex: To be or not to be (Hamlet)

writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form

way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects

• ideas, feeling, thoughts not dealt with directly in the text but exiting underneath
• character don’t always express their real thoughts, so readers mustconsider subtext.

• a part of an object representing the whole (v.v)
• ex: Twenty eyes watched our every move

• putting two sense together
• (taste of a sound) / (look of a smell)
• ex: The scent of the rose rang like a bell through
• the garden

genre where the hero undergoes a misfortune brought about by his own mistake, leading to an unhappy ending

• using less effective descriptions to make a point
• ex: Einstein was a pretty smart guy

leaving something undetermined in order to open up multiple possible meanings

• sharp narrow mountain ridge
• greek philosophy that the world is here to live to the fullest
• must excel in what you do best (poetry, running)
• after life is dark and gloomy

• "missing the mark"
• belief that we were put on Earth to make mistakes
• afterlife is much better place

written to teach a lesson