tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937793485502778192024-03-13T15:41:47.500-07:00LiteratureNigeriaCritical analysis,exploration of literature texts for UME,NECO,WAEC,GCE O'Level etc..IELTS Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12662681816260676394noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693779348550277819.post-66461071769275513102012-08-12T12:04:00.000-07:002012-08-12T12:04:44.580-07:00LITERARY TERMS (B)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Ballad-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A narrative poem, folk in origin, anonymous, simple and
direct with historical, romantic, tragic or supernatural setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Bathos-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A writing that descends from being serious to something,
funny or anti-climatic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Blank verse-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">An unrhymed verse in English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Biography</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">-An account of somebody’s life story
written by another person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Burlesque</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">-A form of mocking or satirizing of a
serious matter or style by imitating in an incongruous or odd way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>IELTS Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12662681816260676394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693779348550277819.post-86323229038734212952012-08-07T06:33:00.004-07:002012-08-07T06:33:55.395-07:002012/2013 ENGLISH LITERATURE JAMB SYLLABUS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: #fefef9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">AFRICAN POETRY</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b><i><span style="background-color: #fefef9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Naked
soles</span></i><span style="background-color: #fefef9; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-Adeoti Gbemisola</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">An
African Thunderstorm</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-D.Rubadiri</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">In the
Navel of the Soul</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Kobena Eyi Acquah</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Heritage
of Liberation</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Masizi Kunene</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">End of
the War</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Okinba Launko</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Give me
the Ministrel's seat</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Traditional
Poem</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">NON-AFRICAN
POETRY</span><br />
</b><i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">To
His Coy Mistress</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Andrew Marvell</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Bat</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-D.H.Lawrence</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">The
Journey of the Magi</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-T.S.Elliot</span><br />
<i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Sonnet</span></i><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Wendy Cope</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">DRAMA</span><br />
</b><u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Romeo & Juliet</span></u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-William Shakespeare</span><br />
<u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Sons & Daughters</span></u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Joe De Graft</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">PROSE</span><br />
</b><u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">The Joys of Motherhood</span></u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Buchi Emecheta</span><br />
<u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">The Old Man and the Medal</span></u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-Ferdinand Oyono</span><br />
<u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">Nineteen Eighty Four</span></u><span style="background: #FEFEF9;">-George Orwell.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>IELTS Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12662681816260676394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693779348550277819.post-23039745801150329822012-08-07T06:15:00.003-07:002012-09-17T06:51:55.706-07:00LITERARY TERMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">COMMON
LITERARY TERMS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Absurd,
Theatre of the Absurd-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A style of writing that mirrors the
confusion, illogicality, inharmony of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century world as reflected on the stage with
caricature-like characters and disjointed plot.E.g, Samuel Beckett’s <u>Waiting
for Godot</u> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Accent-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
effect of the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Auditory
imagery</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- Figurative way of appealing to one’s sense of hearing in a
poem.Eg. <i>The voice like the rough flow of
huge waterfalls.</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aesthetics-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
philosophy of taste or appreciation of beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alienation
Effect-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is the effect in a play intended to remind the spectators
that what being watched on stage is not real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Allegory-</span></b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is a device in which
characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>A reason for this is that allegory has
an immense power of illustrating complex ideas and concepts in a practical and
concrete way. This device is common in Christian religious literature
where Satan symbolizes evil and God
symbolizes good.E.g <u>Pilgrim’s Progress</u> by John Bunyan</span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alliteration-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Repetition
of the same initial consonant sound.E.g. <i>Around
the house the <b>f</b>lakes <b>f</b>ly <b>f</b>aster.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Allusion-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Referring
to characters and events in mythology (classical allusion), history (classical
allusion), bible (biblical allusion).Eg.Bowing ‘<i>New Sabbath’ or ‘Mount Ephraim</i>’. (Biblical allusion)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alternate
rhyme</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-When the end of two lines are alternated, usually in abab,
rhyme scheme pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ambiguity-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A style
of giving double interpretation to a word<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anachronism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
mistake in dating or timing or placing an event in wrong historical setting.Eg.Imagine
a reference to a computer in a Shakespearean play!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Analogy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
comparison not necessarily using simile or metaphor<b>.</b><i>Eg.There is an analogy of
the morally loose lifestyle of the Romans and Americans of today.</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anti
climax-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A false climax or weak repetition with the objective of
extending or stretching excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Antagonist</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-</span><span style="font-family: 'MS Reference Serif', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">character in conflict with hero: a major character in a book, play, or
movie whose values or behaviour are in conflict with those of the protagonist
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aphorism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
solemn, concise observation or statement<b>.Eg
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address or appeal to a person or inanimate object that is incapable of
replying.E.g.<i>Thou sun, why thou smite me?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Art for
Art’s sake-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The belief that a work of art be judged solely
for its aesthetic value rather than for any economic interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aside</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A long
speech where a character expresses his thoughts aloud on stage with other
characters present, but could not hear him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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account of one’s life written by oneself as distinct from Biography (written by
another person).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of vowel sounds, especially when found between words and syllables.Eg.<b> </b><i>W<b>e</b>t is the p<b>e</b>t of the r<b>e</b>nt.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Augustan-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having
to do with the period, early part of 19<sup>th</sup> century, when writers
attempt to copy and imitate the grandeur associated with the reign of Augustus
Ceasar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ballad-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
narrative poem, folk in origin, anonymous, simple and direct with historical,
romantic, tragic or supernatural setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bathos-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
writing that descends from being serious to something, funny or anti-climatic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Blank
verse-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An unrhymed verse in English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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account of somebody’s life story written by another person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Burlesque</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A form
of mocking or satirizing of a serious matter or style by imitating in an
incongruous or odd way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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usually marked by a comma, semi-colon, colon,hyphen or dash in the middle of a
line in of verse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Caricature-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
exaggerated or unrealistic portrayal of a character that is easily recognizable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Catastrophe-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
change producing the final event in a play, usually the decisive misfortune in
a tragedy<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Catharsis-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Based
on the principle that a play is an imitation of real life and as such the
audience should be purged of some feelings (usually defined as pity and fear)
that takes place at the end of a tragedy.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Characterization-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The way
or manner of portraying characters.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chorus-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An innovation
of the Greek drama, where a body of
performers recite or chant verses commenting on events as they unfold. In
modern drama, the chorus is often represented as a narrator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chanson</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-a poem
of varied metrical forms or a French satirical cabaret song of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century or song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comedy
of Manners-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another name for Comedy of Errors.A satiric play
which mirrors the lifestyle of some Victorian personalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comic
Relief</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-An interlude in the midst of a serious play meant to make
the audience laugh or feel relaxed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cliché-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
over-used phrase mostly found in verbal communication.Eg.<i>At the same time</i>,<i> last but
not the least</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Climax-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
peak or turning point in a story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comedy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A play
of entertaining kind representing persons or situations in real life presented
in a comical manner.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conceit-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elaborate,
extended comparison between apparently unrelated objects particularly in
Metaphysical Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Context-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
background or setting from which a story is told.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Couplet-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
matching of same sound at the end of the last two lines of a poem.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">D<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dactyll-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A foot
containing one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Diction-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
study of the choice and arrangement of words in a work of art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Denouement-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
unraveling or resolution of the plot of play or novel at the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deus Ex
Machina-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A practice in some classical plays, where a god is let down
on to the stage to bring about resolution at the end of a play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dialect-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
form of a major language, could be a substandard one spoken in a particular
region<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Didactic-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having
to do with the moral lesson found in a work of art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dialogue</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
words spoken by characters in a book, movie,or play or a section of a work that
contains spoken words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dirge</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A song
of mourning or lamentation, especially one about death or intended for a
funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dramatic
Irony-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A situation where the audience know more than the characters
on stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">E<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elegy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
mournful song sung during burial or composed in memory of somebody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elements-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
four elements which are adjudged to affect the affairs of men namely earth,
air, fire and water.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">End-Stop-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
abrupt stop or pause at the end of a line of a verse.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enjambement-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Continuation
of the sense or meaning from one line of verse to the next without pause.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Epic-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A long,
narrative poem, rendered in elevated language chronicling the heroic exploits
of heroes<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Epigram-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A brief,
pointed and often witty statement, found in all forms of literature.Eg.<b> </b><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">"No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best
friend."(Groucho Marx)</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Epitaph-
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A<b> </b>writing on a tombstone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Epistle-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A<b> </b>long letter didactic in purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Epilogue</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Short
section at the end of a book or a literary work, sometimes detailing the fate
of its characters or a concluding speech in a theatre that an actor addresses
to the audience.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eulogy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
composition written in praise of a person or thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Euphemism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saying
something harsh in a pleasant manner.E.<i>g He
was given the order to <b>erase</b> the
criminal </i>(<b>Erase</b> means to kill).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Evocative-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Calling
out or invoking certain feelings and memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Exposition</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
unraveling of the plot .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">F<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fable-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A short
story devised to convey a useful moral lesson, often using animals that act
symbolically like human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Farce-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A play
that sets out to provoke laughter by employing funny characters in absurd
situations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feminist
criticism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The literary and critical theory that explores the bias in
favour of the male gender in literature and which approaches all literature
from a feminist viewpoint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Figures
of speech-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Expressions which have deeper meaning than their literal
sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Foot-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A unit
usually marked as a syllable in a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Folktale</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
story or legend passed down orally from one generation to the next, thus
becoming part of a community’s tradition or oral history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Free
verse-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A poem with no regular rhyme or rhythm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Flashback</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological
order ,to fill information or explain something in the present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Foreshadowing</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-An
event, situation or information which gives a hint about a later event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Genre-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
three main divisions of English literature, namely prose, prose and drama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gothic-A
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">style
of writing that explores horrific, ghostly setting and situations. <u>Wuthering
Heights</u> by Emily Bronte employs gothic literature for example.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Grotesque-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A form
of art that mixes the realistic and the one that appeals to fantasy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hero/heroine-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
principal person in a literary work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Heroic
couplet-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A kind of poem, usually mock-heroic with two ends of verses
rhyming sound-wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Humour</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">- An
element of something or content meant to cause amusement and excitement in a
work of art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hyperbole-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Exaggeration
in art to create an effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hubris</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A flaw
in character that would eventually lead to the downfall of a character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hendiadys</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">- literary device expressing an idea by
means of two words linked by "and," instead of a grammatically
more complex form such as an adverb qualifying an adjective. Everyday
examples of hendiadys are the expressions "<i>nice and soft</i>," rather than "<i>nicely soft</i>," and "good and tight."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harangue</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">- A long story narrating a series of
complicated events .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagery-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Literary
comparison of using something concrete to explain an abstract idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Intrigue-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes
used in reference to the plot of a play or novel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Irony-A
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">form
of satire or ridicule where the opposite meaning is implied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Interlude</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
short play, piece of music or other entertainment during a break in the
performance of a long work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">L<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Litotes-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saying
something unpleasant in a mild manner.Eg.<i>She
is on the big side</i> (When you mean ,<i>she
is a fat person</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Legend</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
story passed one from time immemorial, which is supposed to be a history of a people,
but with whose historical validity could not be proven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lyric-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A verse
meant to be sung as a song especially with a lyre. A short poem with personal,
passionate feelings, and song-like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lullaby</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A kind
of soothing song meant to make a baby sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lineation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-arrangement
of lines in verse form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Literati</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A body
of imaginative men and women of letters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Limerick</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A five
–line humorous poem, with a peculiar rhythm and lewd subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">M</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Malapropism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
derivation from Mrs.Malaprop,a character from Sheridan’s <u>The Rivals</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> There
is muddled use of long or complex words in the wrong place or context.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Medieval-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
name for the period, the Middle Ages or a period between Dark Ages and the
Renaissance,10<sup>th</sup>-15<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meiosis-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Understatement-A
kind of irony in which a negative understatement is employed for emphasis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Melodrama-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A play
written to appeal to popular taste, marked by exciting incidents, with
definable characters and a happy ending.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Metaphor-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A kind
of imagery where direct comparison is made.<b>Eg.
</b><i>She is the pillar of the class</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Metaphysics-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The study
of the world beyond the physical or terrestrial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Metaplesis</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-a
figurative expression in which a statement is made and then withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Metre-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
poetic rhythm division into regular feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Metonymy</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
figure of speech, which is a form of symbolism where an attribute of something
is used to represent for the thing itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mimetic-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imitation
of sort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mime</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Use of
gestures to communicate in drama.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Muses-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
goddesses often ascribed as the inspiration for writers<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Myth-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A traditional
story expressing the religious beliefs
of a people especially its origin. The Greek mythology of stories of Hercules,
Zeus is very common.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mythology-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A group
of myths that belong to a particular people or culture and deals with ancestors
,heroes, gods ,history and other supernatural beings and happenings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Motivation-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Explanation
of the behaviour of characters especially the motive for their actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Monologue</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
words spoken by an a actor, usually spoken to oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Motif</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
theme in a story, especially one that can be represented by a visible object.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">N<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Narrative
Poem-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A poem that is long and usually tells a story.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Narrative
Technique-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The approach a narrator decides to tell his story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nemesis-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is the
Greek goddess of revenge or retribution .In literature generally, the word
refers to the principle of poetic justice where evil is justly rewarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Neologism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A word
uniquely coined by a writer to create an effect. The word may negate the
principle of grammar etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Novel-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A prose
fiction with substantial length, which elaborately explores various themes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Novella</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
fictional prose work that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a
novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Opera-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
dramatic work, where music is a dominant part of performance, with actors
singing rather than reciting their lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Olfactory
imagery-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An appeal to readers’ sense of smell in a literary work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Omniscient
narrator-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A narrator in a novel who knows and sees all that is
happening in the plot of the novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lyric poem, long poem, expressing exalted emotion usually celebrating a thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Onomatopoeia-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Poetic
imitation of the actual sound of an object in a poem.Eg.<i>bang,bang,bang</i>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oxymoron-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Words
of opposite meanings are yoked or joined together to create an effect.Eg. <i>agony favour.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Panegyric-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Usually
a kind of poetry composed to eulogize or
praise a personality.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pantheism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
belief that God is everything and that God and the universe are one. A belief
popularized by Romantic poets which often associates the attribute of God with
that of nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pantheon-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
whole body of gods considered as a unit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parable-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Usually
an allegory in form of a short narrative through which a moral lesson is
conveyed.Eg the parable of the Prodigal Son in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paradox-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
statement contrary to general opinion which on a first look appears foolish,
but which when given a second look contains some truth.E.g <i>Child is the father of man.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parody-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
humorous imitation of a serious work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paralellism</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Juxtapostions
of words or phrases in a poem to create an effect of contrast.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pastoral-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Literature
that deals with country life, usually describing the idyllic life of shepherds
who fall in love and pass time singing and playing songs<u>. As You Like it</u>
by Shakespeare is based on this kind of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pathos-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moments
in literature when a strong feeling of pity and sorrow is invoked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Periphrasis-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
elegant way of calling a word by another name. This is often found in the Mock
Heroic poems.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Persona-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
character in a poem especially his voice as distinct from that of the poet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Personification-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Giving
human attributes to inanimate objects.E.g .<i>Be
happy when f<b>ortune smiles </b>on you.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Picaresque</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A type
of prose fiction with a simple plot divided into separate episodes that
features the adventures of a roguish hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Plot-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
manner in which events are arranged in a story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Poetic
licence-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The right of poets to manipulate language and established
truths for the sake of art. For example, there is an instance where Shakespeare
ascribes coastline to a country that is landlocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Polysyndeton</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Repetition
of conjunctions in the use of multiple conjunctions or coordinate clauses in
close succession.E.g. <i>The bad news caused
her to weep and cry and wail.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prose-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A work
distinct from having poetic content, being easy to understand, language wise.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Protagonist-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
main hero/character round which the story is built.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prologue</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-An
opening speech rendered at the beginning of a play to give some direction.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pun-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An act
of playing with words.E.g <i>Your sole is as
good as your soul.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Premiere</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
first public perform or showing of a work usually to sample a selected people’s
critical opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Quatrain-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
stanza of four lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Realism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
philosophy opposed to Idealism. The acceptance or representation of things as
they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Refrain-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recurring
phrase or line, usually at the end of a stanza often found in poems and hymns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Renaissance-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Literally
means. ‘rebirth’. The period reckoned as the greatest in history of European
art and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rhetoric-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
formal art of speech making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rhetorical
Question-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A question asked for effect that neither expects nor
requires an answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romance-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Medieval verse tale of the kind written in a Romance language, recounting the adventures
of a knightly hero and expressing the ideals of the Chivalry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rounded
Character-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A character that undergoes changes in the course of the story.
Contrast to a flat character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romanticism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A kind
of poetry that the celebrates nature, passionate feelings, emotion and
imagination over reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Satire-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A work
of art that exposes human vice and folly to laughter and ridicule in a
light,amusing,savage,bitter tone.E.g. <u>Gulliver Travels</u> by Jonathan Swift
and <u>The Beautiful Ones Are not Yet Born</u> by Ayi Kwei Armah<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarcasm-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
biting statement meant to mock, usually applied in a satiric work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Simile-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Direct
comparison of a concrete and abstract object using <b>as</b> or <b>like.E.g </b><i>my love </i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slapstick-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">broad,
coarse, physical comedy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Setting</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
background, whether physical or abstract through which a work is presented.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soliloquy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A long
speech in which a character expresses his thoughts out loud on stage, usually
when alone<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sonnet-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
14-line poem with a complex rhyme scheme and structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Simile</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Direct
comparison using <i>as</i> or <i>like</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stanza-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A group
of lines in a poem divided off from the others. A stanza is the correct term
for what is often referred to as a verse of poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stoicism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A Roman
philosophy which preaches calmness, self control in the face of provocation or pain
(opposite of Epicureanism).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Symbolism-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Use of symbol,
similar to an image in that it stands for something else, but unlike an image
is not merely descriptive.Universally,colour white could symbolize peace, while
black could stand for evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Synecdoche</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
figure of speech in which part is used to represent the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sub-plot-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
secondary plot or storyline in a book or play, which often provides either
comic relief from main plot or a different way of looking at the themes and
interests of the main plot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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emphasis placed on a particular syllable at the expense of another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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matter</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The total sum of what a literary work is about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Suspense-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
feeling of tense excitement, expectation about how the next part of a novel or
play would turn out to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stylistics-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
approach of poetry employing basic language tools such as grammar etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stream
of Consciousness: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The attempt in writing to recreate the actual
flow ,pattern and sense of thoughts as they pass through a person’s head in
real life or to describe experience as it is actually felt by a person as it is
taking place. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941),James Joyce(1882-1941)are two
well-known exponents of this style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">School-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A term
that refers to a group of authors who share certain characteristics in their
works usually as classified by critics.E.g Romantic writers, Theatre of the
Absurd etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of poetic rhythm measured as a metrical foot of two long or stressed syllables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tone-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
feeling and attitude of the writer derived from his work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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central idea or ideas examined or explored by the writer in the course of a
book.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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mixture of tragedy and comedy.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tragedy-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A play
with the following features: A tragic hero with a flaw who dies at the end of
the story, multiple deaths, a play that exhibits pity and agony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hero</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-The
protagonist of a story who has a flaw that would eventually lead to his
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tactile
imagery</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Figurative expression that relates to touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Flaw</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-A
character fault in the protagonist of a story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wit-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
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