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What's the difference between alliteration, consonance, and assonance?
Alliteration = same starting sounds Consonance = similar consonant sounds Assonance = similar vowel sounds
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What is the difference between diction and tone?
Diction indicates the level of formality and regional quality of the words throughout a piece >> gives us insight to the type of voice we are "hearing" Tone indicates both the mood of a particular passage as well as the attitude that the speaker presents >> gives us insight about how the author is portraying the subject
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What is a caesura?
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, as indicated by a comma or other punctuation
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What do the terms antithesis, paradox, and parallelism have in common?
Each of these terms puts two things in an opposing balance. Paradox = two opposite ideas, but each existing in simultaneous truth Parallellism = two (or more) simlilar structural or syntactical choices made nearby to one another for effect Antithesis = When the ideas are opposite, but the syntax is parallel!
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What are some ways in which you could observe and analyze STRUCTURE in a poem or passage?

-Use of white space

-Order of sections

-Mirroring/Echoing

-Parallelism (anaphora, antithesis, etc.)

-Pace

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What's the difference between an end-stopped verse of poetry and one that demonstrates enjambment?
End-stopped verses feature punctuation that indicates a break or end of phrase at the end. Enjambment occurs when there is no break in the sense of a line, but a new verse begins anyway.
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Euphony and Cacophony refer to the relative "beauty" of sounds. Which is which? And what sounds do speakers of English generally find "beautiful" or "ugly"?
BEAUTY: (euphony) L's, S's, M's, N's, vowel sounds UGLINESS: (cacophony) Ck, Ch, T, P, Q
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In following sentence, name the subject, verb, direct object, and indirect object: "As I pondered the expansiveness of the universe while cleaning my grandfather's attic, I lazily launched a paper airplane out the window and down to my little brother."
Subject: I Verb: launched Direct Object: airplane Indirect Object: brother
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Why shouldn't you mention "vivid imagery" in your writing?

Because that's redundant. Instead, you should identify the type of imagery (ex. natural, mechanical, anatomical, domestic, etc.)

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What is the difference between dramatic irony and situational irony?
DRAMATIC = We know what's going on, but the character doesn't. SITUATIONAL = What we are led to expect does not happen, but something totally opposite does instead.
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What's the difference between parody, satire, and wordplay?

Parody is playful imitation. Satire is scathing criticism through humor. Wordplay that relies on homonyms, homophones, or rhymes. 

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What is a dichotomy? What is liminal space?

Dichotomy = The relationship or tension between two opposing ideas.


Liminal space = The murky middle of the dichotomy (neither living nor dead, both good and evil)

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How does one recognize refrain, and how is it similar/different from anaphora?

Anaphora = repetition of first part of phrase

Refrain = a repeated line or phrase that returns again and again exactly the same, interspersed between different "verse" stanzas

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What's a motif?
A recurring symbol or element in a text. (Usually metaphorical)
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A full statement that represents the idea/message of a text, Ex: "wealth enables its possessors to control the poor." <

Thematic statement

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What type of poem would be more likely to contain a mournful tone--an elegy or a lyric poem? Explain.
An elegy, probably--this is a poem in remembrance of someone who has died. A lyric poem is a poem "about" a subject... of any kind.
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What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?
Metonymy is any type of metaphor wherein the metaphor is created through an object closely associated with the subject. Synecdoche is a special kind of metonymy, which uses a part of the subject to represent the whole.
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What is the difference between structure and style?
Structure deals with the way the text is organized--where breaks or shifts occur, etc. Style deals with the quality of the text overall: diction, tone, syntax, narration, ALL OF IT.
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How do you recognize a sonnet?
It is more or less a square shape. It is fourteen lines in length. It is a specific rhyme pattern (Shakespearean/English: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, Pertrachan/Italian: ABBA ABBA CDCDCD). All sonnets are written in iambic pentameter
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How should we change this sentence from a student essay:

When Hamlet delays killing Claudius at prayer, the reader is held in suspense. As the reader watches Hamlet's journey, they come to understand just how maladjusted he is.

We should shift the focus away from the reader, to what the author is creating instead. 

Ex. Shakespeare emphasizes the value of revenge as something that comes from both physical and metaphysical punishment. Hamlet only wishes to slay his uncle if he can also send him to hell, allowing Shakespeare to make clear that ending an evil life is not complete without heaven's righteous judgement.

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How do you format titles? Tell when you would...

Italicize a title

Underline a title

Put a title in quotation marks

Italics and underlining are for long works (novels, plays, films, publications)

Quotation marks are for short works (short stories, poems, songs, articles)

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"The leaves swayed back and forth in the breeze." Is this personification? Explain your answer.
No. It does not assign an exclusively human quality to the leaves. To fix: The leaves swayed, back and forth in the breeze, clinging desperately to one another.
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Here's a portion of a poem from Dudley Randall. What type of special meter do we see here? "The mother smiled to know her child/ was in the sacred place/ But that smile was the last smile/ to come upon her face/ For when she heard the explosion her eyes grew wet and wild She raced through the streets of Birmingham calling for her child."
Ballad meter (Fits with the tune of "Amazing Grace")
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Describe what each of these means... IAMB ANAPEST DACTYL TROCHEE
u / , u u / , / u u , / u ,
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One poetic foot means the meter is monometer. What do you call it for... Two feet Three feet Four feet Five feet Six feet
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter Hexameter