English reviewer

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Cards (58)

  • Stanza - series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line from other stanzas.
  • One way to identify stanza is to count the number of lines.
  • Quatrain has for lines in one stanza
  • Rhyme - repetition of similar sounds in poetry.
  • Climax - is the highest point of interest.
  • Round or dynamic - the type of character who experiences joy and sorrow and undergoes changes.
  • Narrative poetry - tells a story. Its structures resembles the plot of a story.
  • Lyric poem - expresses feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, opinions, etc. It does not have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
  • Sonnet - a fourteen-line lyric poem with iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line).
  • Theme - underlying message of a story and it can be directly stated.
  • Human vs. Self - the kind of conflict that has inner struggles.
  • Vignettes - poetric slices of life are literally device that bring us deeper into the story.
  • Vignettes - step away from the action momentarily to zoom in for a closer examination of a particular character, concept, or place.
  • Writers use vignettes to shed light on something that wouldnt be visible in the story's main plot.
  • Short story - is a story that has a fully developed theme and the parts and compounds of a story but it has length that is shorter than a novel. Short stories are usually between 1000 and 7500 words. They give readers a chance in escape for a brief tine and they are designed to finish in one sitting.
  • Prose - is a straightforward form of literature, wherein the author expresses his thoughts and feelings in a conventional manner
  • Poetry is a form of literature in which the poet uses a unique style and rhythm to express intense experience.