STAAR English II: Elements of Literature 2

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  1. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  2. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  3. enjambment
    continuation from one line of verse into the next line
  4. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  5. hero
    the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
  6. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  7. iamb
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  8. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  9. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  10. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  11. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  12. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  13. stressed
    bearing an accent
  14. tragic flaw
    the error of a hero in a drama that leads to his downfall
  15. trickster
    a mischievous supernatural being (often a stock character)
  16. unstressed
    not bearing an accent
Created on Tue May 25 15:57:08 EDT 2021 (updated Wed May 26 09:00:12 EDT 2021)

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