Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Lit Terms

Protagonist - The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text
Example: Beowulf


Rhythm - The measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables
Example: iambic pentameter (5 pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables)

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