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fireside poets
were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England
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romantic hero
literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has the self as the center of his or her own existence.
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archetype
an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all. In psychology, an archetype is a model of a person, personality, or behavior
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comic device
spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. The first, literal meaning is an innocent one, while the second meaning is often ironic or risqué and requires the hearer to have some additional knowledge
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elegy
mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead
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assonance
refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse
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alliteration
repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed as if they occurred at the beginning of a word, as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along"
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meter
basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
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hyperbole
rhetorical device in which statements are exaggerated
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understatement
form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than would be expected
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paradox
true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition
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oxymoron
a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms
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slant rhyme
is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved
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symbol
something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention
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synesthesia
is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway
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tall tale
with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual
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gothic
a British literary genre
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folklore
consists of culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group
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folk tale
an English language term for a type of short narrative corresponding to the French phrase conte de fée, the German term Märchen, the Italian fiaba, the Polish baśń or the Swedish saga
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urban legend
a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true
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protagonist
is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to share the most empathy
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personification
an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person
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parable
is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human characters. It is a type of analogy
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myth
often used colloquially to refer to a false story
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dark romantics
literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America
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allegory
a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal
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