ENGL 1201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lota De Macedo Soares, Vassar College, Marianne Moore
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Setting: the place or places where the events of the work occur. Character: the persons/actors who feature in the work primary/secondary protagonist/antagonist round/flat. Story: the actions narrated or described in the work. Style: the level, register, or tone of language generally used in the work. Imagery: an appeal to the senses to conjure in words, pictures, sounds, and other sensory stimuli. Figurative language: use of tropes, or turns away from literal language metaphor/simile: comparison between two unlike things to suggest a likeness metonymy/synecdoche: to evoke the whole by naming the part. Line: the basic unit of poetry, whose length is determined not by the page but by the author"s choice or by the verse form. End-stop: when the line ends where a unit of grammar ends. Enjambment: when the line ends within a grammatical unit. Verse form: how the language of a poem is organized by sound. Rhyme: the regular matching of sounds in a poem.
