English by Ruchi Mam

Accent - the emphasis placed upon a syllable in pronunciation. The term is often used as a synonym for „stress‟, although some theorists prefer to use 'stress' only for metrical accent. Acrostic - a poem in which the initial letters of each line can be read down the page to spell either an alphabet, a name (often that of the author, a patron, or a loved one), or some other concealed message. Act - a major division in the action of a play, comprising one or more scenes. A break between acts often coincides with a point at which the plot jumps ahead in time. Adynaton - a figure of speech related to Hyperbole that emphasizes the inexpressibility of something, idea, or feeling, either by stating that words cannot describe it, or by comparing it with something (e.g. the heavens, the oceans) the dimensions of which cannot be grasped. Aestheticism - the doctrine or disposition that regards beauty as an end in itself, and attempts to preserve the arts from subordination to moral, oidactic, or political purposes. The term is often used synonymously with the Aesthetic Movement, a literary and artistic tendency of the late 19th century which may be understood as a further phase of Romanticism Alexandrine - a verse line of twelve syllables adopted by poets since the 16th century as the standard verse-form of French poetry, especially dramatic and narrative. The English alexandrine is an iambic hexameter (and thus has six stresses, whereas the French line usually has four), and is found rarely except as the final line in the Spenserian stanza, as in Keats's The Eve of StAgnes': “She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.” Allegory - a story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. The principal technique of allegory is personification, whereby abstract qualities are given human shape-as in public statues of Liberty or Justice. An allegory may be conceived as a metaphor that is extended into a structured system. In written narrative, allegory involves a continuous parallel between two (or more) levels of meaning in a story, so that its persons and events correspond to their equivalents in a system of ideas or a chain of events external to the tale: each character and episode in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), for example, embodies an idea within a pre-existing Puritan doctrine of salvation. Alliteration - the repetition of the same sounds-usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables-in any sequence of neighboring words: 'Landscape lover, lord of language' (Tennyson) Allusion - an indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work, the nature and relevance of which is not explained by the writer but relies on the reader's familiarity with what is thus mentioned. American Renaissance - the name sometimes given to a flourishing of distinctively American literature in the period before the Civil War. As described by F. O. Matthiessen in his influential critical work American Renaissance (1941), this renaissance is represented by the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, H. D. Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Its major works are Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), and Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855). Amphibrach - a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables, as in the word 'confession' (or, in quantitative verse, one long syllable between two shorts). It is the opposite of the amphimacer. It was rarely used in classical verse, but may occur in English in combination with other feet. Anachronism - the misplacing of any person, thing, custom, or event outside its proper historical time. Performances of Shakespeare's plays in modem dress use deliberate anachronism, but many fictional works based on history include unintentional examples, the most famous being the clock in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Anadiplosis - a rhetorical figure of repetition in which a word or phrase appears…

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