not stopping at the end of a line of poetry, the poet forcing the flow from one line to another
What is enjambment?
100
an author's choice of words
What is diction?
200
the associated meaning of a word
What is connotation?
200
act, imitate, fake
What is feign?
200
all knowing
What is omniscient?
200
language that is not literal, and often contains a deeper meaning to it
What is figurative language?
200
the type of diction that is characterized as more informal
What is low diction?
300
giving inanimate objects human qualities
What is personification?
300
social theory advocating the rights of the individual over the needs of society
What is individualism?
300
dumb, blank, dull
What is vacuous?
300
the stopping in the middle of a line of poetry, either in natural speech or by punctuation
What is caesura?
300
to perceive by the sight or intellect
What is discern?
400
deceit, deception
What is subterfuge?
400
apathy, indifferent, impartial
What is disinterestedness?
400
form of poetry free from set rhyme or rhythm
What is free verse?
400
belief in the existence of a God ont he evidence of reason and nature only -- God created the world, but has since remained indifferent to it
What is deism?
500
the setting of two literary elements side by side for comparison
What is juxtaposition?
500
artificial, contrived, feigned
What is affected?
500
arrogant, scornful
What is supercilious?
500
can be olfactory, visual, tactile, auditory, or gustatory
What is imagery?
500
A philosophical movement that believed that God is in everything and everything is in God. To understand the cosmos is to understand the self. Self-knowledge is of the highest order in thinking.