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Structure of Poety
Lines...sorta
story foundations
100
theme
What is the underlying ideas that the author illustrates frhough characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc.
100
I knew she was bad when she walked over and offered him a bite of her apple.
What is biblical allusion or allusion?
100
The number of feet in one of these in poetry.
What is a line?
100
a unit of a poem similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem
What is stanza?
100
time and place of a literary work
What is setting?
200
Sentence tructure that mirrors each other through similar syntax or phrasing in a poem or passage
What is parallel structure?
200
Identify the meter. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun."
What is iambic pentameter?
200
one foot
What is monometer?
200
2 lines of poetry
What is a couplet
200
method of narration
What is point of view?
300
a work that functions on a symbolic level
What is an allegory?
300
the basic building block or unit of measurement in poetry
What is a foot?
300
two feet
What is dimeter?
300
3 lines
What is tercet?
300
a plot that explores ideas different from the main storyline
What is subplot?
400
words that are spoken by an actor intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on stage
What is an aside?
400
a foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an two unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
400
three feet
What is trimeter?
400
5 lines of poetry
What is cinquain?
400
sequence of events in a literary work
What is plot?
500
a reference contained in a work
What is an allusion
500
The person who untangles the key to the plot of a play.
What is deus ex machina?
500
what is 7 feet
What is heptameter?
500
6 lines of poetry
What is sestet
500
background information presented in a literary work
What is exposition?
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