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SENIOR LITERARY TERMS
1. caesura – break in the flow of a line or verse of poetry
2. canto - chant
3. catalogue verse –a list in a character’s lines (i.e. MacBeth – listing types of dogs)
4. conceit – elaborate or strained metaphor – compared at length
5. dactyl – metrical foot consisting of one stressed and two unstressed syllables - ie. Tenderly
6. farce – exaggerated comedy; absurd plot, humorous dialogue, puns, mistaken identity
7. hexameter – line of verse containing six metrical feet
8. idyll – a descriptive work in poetry or prose dealing with rustic life or pastoral scenes, suggests
a mood of peace and contentment
9. inscape – tone of imagery
10. metonymy – a figure of speech containing the name of one thing for that of another for which
it is an attribute or is associated - ie. “crown” for “lands belonging to the crown”
11. mock epic –epic on trivial incident; exaggerating hero and their actions
12. rhyme royal –stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme of ababbcc
13. saga – long detailed account (originally from Iceland – telling of heroic accounts)
14. sestet- poem of six lines; specifically the last six lines of an Italian sonnet
15. spondee –metrical foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables
16. synesthesia – one sensation described as another (appealing to two senses at once)
17. synecdoche –figure of speech when a part is put for the whole (fifty sail for fifty ships) or
the whole for the part (society for high society)
18. tetrameter – four metrical feet
19. trochee –metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed (apple)
20. villanelle – French poem, 19 lines, aba aba aba aba aba abaa,