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she is as big as a house.
life is like a box of chocolates.
| Is 'Bad As I Wanna Be' by Dennis Rodman an autobiography or a biography? | Literary Terms
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dialogue. It is an important element in most stories and novels to show what a character is like.
plot. It consists of an introduction, conflict, climax and resolution.
| Okay, to start you off: What is the term used for a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry? | Poetic and Literary Terms
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meter. Terms like iambic meter, trochaic meter, etc. describe the exact patterns of stresses. Terms such as dimeter, pentameter, etc. describe the number of stressed syllables in a line.
words describing a sense-related picture. Imagery is just what it sounds like: words that evoke images. Much stronger than abstractions, vague words that do not evoke images, such as 'love' or 'fear'.
foot. Dactyls and iambs are kinds of feet, but the foot is the actual unit. An ellipsis is the 'dot-dot-dot', or ... .
cliche. Some good example of a cliches: the ubiquitous 'broken heart', the everpresent 'spinning world', and the irritating 'burning love'. These weaken poems. Very much so.
| What word is used for the Japanese form of poetry that is written in three lines consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables respectively? | Poetic and Literary Terms
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haiku. Haikus usually are related to nature, but not always.
the continuance of a sentence onto the next line without end punctuation. Here's an example of enjambment from one poem (no, not a famous poet, but still a good example): 'A splinter will slip inside my arch and work its way upward, not to worry through the brain but to wind its root around my hips and trunk my vertebrae...' The words 'work' and 'trunk' seem to be nouns, but in the next lines are revealed to be verbs. Very interesting poetic device.
poems written with no rhyme or meter. Free verse has no rhyme or meter, but that does not mean it is inferior; there are many exemplary free verse poems.
lines that are ended by punctuation. Enjambed lines are the opposite of end-stopped lines.
a pause in the line often indicated by punctuation. When there is a comma or a period, a caesura usually occurs there.
terza rima. An example, from Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life': 'Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth...'
| What is the definition of a corona? By the way, this does not mean the beer, and this is not the astronomical corona, so what is the definition of the poetic corona? | Poetic and Literary Terms
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a sonnet sequence with the last line of one being the first line of the next. Example: The 7 sonnets that come before the holy sonnets of John Donne.
a short stanza that ends poems such as ballades or sestinas.
volta. One of the four characteristics of sonnets (the other three are 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and a rhyme scheme).
A succesive line of literature with repetitious sounds. A well known example would be "She sells sea shells by the sea shore". The repetition can either be inside the word or at the beginning of the word.
The resolution of the central complication. This word of French origin literally means the action of untying. It usually follows the climax of a story.
Sarcasm. One example would be "That sock smells like roses" after it has been sitting in a gym locker for three months.
A comparison not using the words "like" or "as". An example might be "She was a tree standing graceful and tall." Metaphors are commonly found in poetry.
The main character of a story. For example, the protagonist in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is of course Harry Potter. A protagonist is also sometimes called the hero of the story.
A comparison using "like" or "as". An example might be "the frosting was as fluffy as clouds". Similes are used to make the reader understand and be able to visualize better what is being described by comparing it to something that is unrelated.
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