ENGL 1F95 Study Guide - Final Guide: Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Intertextuality
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I. what you say + how you say it. Texts are in conversation (books talk to each other) intertextuality. Alliteration - series of words beginning with the same constant sound (ex. Anapest - metrical foot: two unstressed syllables followed by a stress (ex. overcome, underfoot) Anaphora - repetition of a word/words at the beginning of a line. Author - creator; someone who writes literary works. Aside - when a character speaks to the audience in the presence of other charas (who don"t acknowledge it) Caesura - a punctuated pause in the middle of a line/verse. Dactyl - metrical foot; stress, unstresss unstress (ex. dinosaur) Dramatic monologue - when a character speaks to themselves aloud, revealing something. Enjambment - continuation of a line over a line break. Epanilepsis - repetition at the start and end (ex. eye to eye) Epigraph - a phrase/quote at the beginning of a work. Epistrophe - repetition of a word/words at the end of a line.
