Vocab 9
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The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line.
It's essentially a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deductible from those of individual words.
How when people say break a leg, then generally mean good luck not actually break a leg. Or if someone says “Dont bite the dust” they mean dont die. This is also portrayed kinda in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: part 4 where the main antagonist “Kira” ( Like the death shinigami”. Has a final move called “Bites the Dust”, where he essentially explodes killing people around him
As a failsafe if his identity is known.
Idiom
A seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may be proved to be well founded or true.
Example: In popular television series The Flash, Barry Allen goes back in time to save his mother, However he still kept his speed for years and years later.
Paradox
A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.
Example: the first song on an album normally titled, the intro.
Or another example could be like in Frankenstein when the first part was letters.
Prologue
he use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other tropical issues.
Example: “Its not like your doing it the wrong way or anything.” (while doing it the wrong way)
Satire
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The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for the thing meant.
Example: For example like using “the White House” as a name for the US administration.
Metonymy
Into the middle of a narrative; without preamble.
A good example of this could be the anime “Full metal alchemist” . The first 30 seconds of the pilot episode is the middle of a fight scene with no context. Eventually we do learn what's going on but not initially.
In media res
A storytelling technique featuring two or more distinct, concurrent storylines, often separated by time, location, or character that share thematic structural, or causal connections.
Example: All the spidermans in into the multiverse, share the same story with a cannon event of their version of uncle ben dying for them to become great.
Paraell plot
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
For example, Luffy is the main character in One Piece.
Protagonist
A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.
Example: “ A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair” by Raych Jackson. This is a contemporary take on the form focusing on cultural identity.
Sestina
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.
Example: When reverse flash is caught and he goes on to explain why he is doing everything that he's doing.
Monologue
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or middle of a text.
Even though I was a fool, in that moment I felt more of a tool and that's not cool.
I believe it goes something like that, more examples are in many songs of today. Moreover intentional.
Internal rhyme.
: The repetition of similar grammatical forms, words, or phrases to show that ideas in a sentence or list have the same level of importance, balance, and rhythm.
Example: I wish to not only obtain a G37 IPL 3.7L v6 engine making around 330 horsepower and 276 ft pounds of torque with an absolute elegance of a look and sound. But I also wish to obtain a 2021 Acura TLX with red guts.
Pararell structure
a fictitious name, especially one used by an author.
A good example of this could be a person telling a tiktok storytime, and to protect the identity of said friend or person. They would say “We are going to call this person Jay.”
Pseudonym
the last six lines of a sonnet.
Example:
He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word
From thy behavior; beauty doth he give
And found it in thy cheek. He can afford
No praise to thee but what in thee doth live.
Then thank him not for that which he doth say,
Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay.
From sonnet 79.
Sestet
A decorative design or pattern
Example: This could follow as the logo for a company.
Motif
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
An example of this could be, the child of a professional NBA player not having the slightest interest in sports, or a really talented MVP NBA player who is super talented but prefers to watch horses and has no interest in the game
Irony
A figure of speech where the end of a sentence twists the meaning.
Example: “ Take me instead… PLEASE!”
Paraprosdokian
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
A good example of this could be when someone goes, no pun intended but that guy is on fire. Meaning they could be doing really good but also be on fire.
Pun
The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
Example: It was a hot summer day on the beach, where the foamy blue waves crash up and down on shore. It was there, where I…
(I made this, no cite)
setting
A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or pattern poem.
Example: An example of a narrator could be the watcher in the marvel series, who sees and hears everything while narrating the animated series.
Narrator
The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with a contrasting effect.
A big example of Juxtaposition is a very wealthy man standing with a very poor man. Or in A tale of two cities where there's the best of times and the worst of times.
juxtaposition
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Example: Political cartoons seen in DBQ’s in history class.
Parody.
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
A really good example could be the way poets writes poems, where he goes
abab , those first interchanging lines are an example of a Quatrain.
Quatrain
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Example: The sun felt just as hot as standing next to a oven
similie.