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| synecdoche | A part referring to the whole |
| archetype | A symbol, story pattern, or character type that is found in literature of many cultures. |
| omniscient | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| scansion | The analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then based on the pattern of the stresses dividing the line into feet. |
| parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses. A technique that lends a sentence rhythm and cadence. It sounds good, and it creates emphasis. |
| metric feet | "The trochee, iamb, dactyl, and anapest are the metrical feet in English that are most likely to form the main body of feet in a poem." Count out the beat of a poem. |
| iambic pentameter | The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used. The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet." There must be 5 beats per line (ten syllables). A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. da dum da dum da dum. |
