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GRE Literature: Literary Terms
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1. Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

2. A pause or break within a line of poetry - esp. in Old English verse.

3. The character who works against the protagonist in the story Example: Iago in Othello

4. A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed.

5. The assigning of human attributes - such as emotions or physical characteristics - to nonhumans - most often plants and animals. It differs from personification in that it is an intrinsic premise and an ongoing pattern applied to a nonhuman character

6. Verse characterized by the internal alliteration of lines and a strong midline pause called a caesura Example: Beowulf

7. A term coined by Aristotle to describe some error or frailty in character which brings about misfortune in Greek tragedy. Roughly equivalent to a tragic flaw - except that hamartia implies fate. Example: Oedipus; Macbeth

8. 9-line stanza. First 8 are iambic pentameter. The final line - in iambic hexameter - is an alexandrine. Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc Example: The Faerie Queene - by Edmund Spenser

9. The principal character in a work of fiction Example: Othello in Othello

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