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 \u003Cbr>more personel in Horotian/Romanlic.   |\n| Elegy   | A poem of serious reflection,typically o  \u003Cbr>lamenl for the dead.   | Clossical Greek frodilion PYQ   | Groy's \"Elegy Wriften in a Counfry  \u003Cbr>Churchyard;Milon's Lgcidos   | PYQ:Oflen follows a patlen of grief  \u003Cbr>to consolafion.  \u003Cbr>Trop:Nof just any sod poem.×   |\n| Epic   | A long narrative poem,ordinarily toncerning  \u003Cbr>a serious subjec contoining details of heroic  \u003Cbr>deeds and events significant to a culure or  \u003Cbr>nation.   | Homer (Greek)PYQ   | Iliad,Odysseg;Virgil's Aeneid;  \u003Cbr>Paradise Lost   | PYQ:Feafures include invoking a muse,  \u003Cbr>in medias res slart,heroic scope.  \u003Cbr>Trap:Mock-epice(e.g,Rope ef the Lock)   |\n| Alliterafion   | The repetition of the same consonant  \u003Cbr>sounds of the beginning of words that are  \u003Cbr>in close proximily.   | Old English Poetry PYQ  \u003Cbr>(Beowulf)   | \"Pefer Piper picked a peck of pickled  \u003Cbr>peppers   | PYQ:Focuses on inifial cnsonant sounds  \u003Cbr>.  \u003Cbr>Trop:Consonance (repelition anywhere)  \u003Cbr>vs.Assonance(rowel sounds).   |\n| Imagery   | Visuolly descriplive or figurofive longuoge,  \u003Cbr>especially in a literory work.   | Ezra Pound(Imogism)PYQ   | The opparifion of these foces in the trowd;/  \u003Cbr>Pelals on o wet,block bough.\"(Pound)   | PYQ:Appeak fo the senses.  \u003Cbr>Imagist movemenl emphasized direct  \u003Cbr>freaimenl.   |\n| Symbolism   | The use of symbols fo represent ideas or  \u003Cbr>qualilies.   | Mallarmé PYQ  \u003Cbr>(French Symbolisis)   | The Albafross in Coleridge's Rime of fhe  \u003Cbr>Ancient Mariner;The white whale in  \u003Cbr>Moby Dick   | PYQ:An objecd representing an  \u003Cbr>obsiract iden.  \u003Cbr>Trop:Allegory (exlended metaphor).   |\n| Irony PYQ   | A contrast or incongruily between  \u003Cbr>expecalions and reality.   | Socrafes(Socralic Irony)  \u003Cbr>PYQ   | Verbol:saying the opposite of whot is meonl.  \u003Cbr>Situotionof outcome confrary to expecdotion.  \u003Cbr>Dramafic:oudience knows more then  \u003Cbr>characters.   | PYQ:Differenl types(Verbal,  \u003Cbr>PYQ  \u003Cbr>SiHuational,Dramolic,Socrotic).  \u003Cbr>frap  \u003Cbr>Trap:Nof just soreasm.   |\n| Paradox   | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory  \u003Cbr>słofemenf or proposilion thof when  \u003Cbr>investigoled or explained may prove fo be  \u003Cbr>well founded or frue.   | Cleanth Brooks-The  \u003Cbr>WellWrought Um   | I must be crvel to be kind.\"(Hamlet);  \u003Cbr>The child is father of fhe man.  \u003Cbr>(Wordsworth)   | PYQ:Cenfrol to New Crilicism.  \u003Cbr>Trap:Qxymbron(condensed parodox,  \u003Cbr>e.g.,deafening silence).   |\n\n# fiterary_Teums -Classical &Drama(with Authon)\n\n\n| LITERARY  \u003C","cbCaifT70jtKRymQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifT70jtKRymQ","pdf",467097,"English","# Literary Terms-Peety & Rheteric (With Auther)\n# fiterary_Teums - Classical & Drama (with Authon)","[{\"question\":\"What is the difference between metaphor and simile in exam definitions?\",\"answer\":\"Metaphor makes a direct comparison between two unrelated things without using “like” or “as”, while simile explicitly compares them using “like” or “as” and highlights the comparison words.\"},{\"question\":\"What do “catharsis” and “tragedy” mean in classical drama?\",\"answer\":\"Tragedy describes serious drama with a noble protagonist that evokes pity and fear and leads to catharsis. 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