Lit Vocab (H-P)

• Greek mythology: A person of superhuman powers; demigod; immortal
• Later on: brave leader; person of great physical strength; protagonist

A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters.

The use of exaggeration for emphasis or to make a point.

A metrical foot that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

A concrete picture, either literally or figuratively.

Representative of things accessible to the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

A technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning.

Rhyme within a line.

The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.

An appeal for inspiration or assistance is made to a muse or deity.

• A contrast between two elements; can provide depth, impact, and suggest a complexity of experience.
• Verbal Irony: Saying one thing and meaning another.
• Situational Irony: The contrast between what happens and what was expected.
• Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something that the character(s) does not.

Consists of an octave with the rhyme scheme abba(x2) and a sestet rhyming in various patterns.

The arrange of two or more ideas side-by-side in comparison/contrast.

A figurative expression that replaces a name or a noun.

Of, like, pertaining to, or derived from Latin.

The precise, plain meaning of a word/phrase in its simplest, original sense.

A type of poem that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings in a song-like style.

The comparison of one thing to another w/o using like or as.

Not physical; immaterial; sth from imagination.

The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a verse.

The substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant.

Exaggeration, and sarcasm to mock its original subject.

Imitating the style of heroic poetry inorder to satirize an unheroic subject.

An extended speech by one person with or without an audience.

Tone; atomosphere; feeling.

A recurring subject, theme, idea, etc.

A story; an account of real or imagined events.

One who tells the story; determines the story's point of view.

Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds.

The first unit in an Italian sonnet; stanza of eight lines.

A complex, lengthy lyric poem written to honour a person/season/event.

The use of words formed or sounding like what they signify.

Two words that contradict each other.

A statement that contradicts itself, yet still makes sense.

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

Imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a literary work in order to make fun of those same features.

A poem that deals with an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life.

The feeling of pity, sympathy, tenderness, compassion, or sorrow evoked by characters who are helpless and innocent.

Five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.

A voice or an assumed role of a character that represents the thoughts of a writer or a specific person the writer wants to present as his mouthpiece.

Something nonhuman is given human qualities.

Consists of an octave with the rhyme scheme abba(x2) and a sestet rhyming in various patterns.

A pun.

The opening section of a work; an introduction

The main character of a story.

A short, pithy saying that is used to express commonly held ideas or beliefs.

The use of a word/phrase to suggest two or more meanings at a time; play on words.