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Literature 1

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Definitions
  • alliteration
  • antagonist
  • assonance
  • couplet
  • graphic novel
  • iambic pentameter 
  • irony
  • metaphor 
  • motif

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Definitions
  • protagonist
  • rhyme
  • setting
  • short story
  • simile
  • sonnet
  • tone 


Source: The Norton Introduction to Literature

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Alliteration
Usually, the repetion of the first consonant through a sequence of words.

Example: 
'While I nodded, nearly napping'

Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Raven'

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Antagonist
The opposing force, character or non-human that opposes or is in conflict with the protagonist.

Example:
Heinrich
How to Stop Time - Matt Haig


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Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings.

Example:
'His tender heir might bear his memory'
Shakespeare - 'Sonnet 1'

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Couplet 
Two lines of verse linked by rhyme (and meter)

Example:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
   To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

Shakespeare - 'Sonnet 1'

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Graphic Novel
A book containing a long story told mostly in pictures but with some writing.


It differs from a comic in that it contains serious literary themes and sophisticated artwork.

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Iambic pentameter
A metrical form in which most lines consist of five 'iambs', a unit of rhythm (a 'foot') in poetry, consisting of two syllables. The first one is unstressed, the second one stressed. 

One day / I wrote / her name/ upon / the strand
but came / the waves / and wash / ed it / away
Again / I wrote / it with / a se /cond hand
But came  / the tide / and made / my pains / his prey

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Irony
A situation or statement characterised by a significant difference between what is expected or is understood and what actually happens or is meant. 

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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly, without the use of as or like.


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Motif
A recurring device, formula or situation within a literary work, often used to draw attention to a particular aspect of that work. 

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Protagonist
The main character in a work

Example:
Tom Stoppard in Matt Haig's How to Stop Time 

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Rhyme
repetition of the terminal sounds of a word 
end rhyme: last words of two or more sentences rhyme
internal rhyme: a word within a line rhymes with another word in the same or following line. 
eye rhyme: the words don't rhyme actually but they look like they do. 
slant rhyme/near rhyme: only the final consonant sounds rhyme but the vowels do not or vice versa. 

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Setting
The time and place of the action in a fictional work.

Example:
A remote mountain village, long ago

'The Elephant in the Village of the Blind' - anon.

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Short story
A relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less. The short story works to create a single effect. 

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Simile
A figure of speech that involves a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another.

'My love is like a red, red rose'

Robert Burns

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Sonnet
A fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines, usuallin in iambic pentameter.

English sonnet: four quatrains (= 4 lines) and a couplet (=2 lines)
Italian sonnet: octave (= 8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines).

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Tone 
The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially in the way that the language is used when discussing this subject.

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