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A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
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Iamb
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The term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the preceding endnote or footnote.
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Ibidem
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A rhythmical or metrical stress.
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Ictus
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The imaginary person who, the writer hopes, will understand completely the experience he is trying to convey
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Ideal Reader
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An idea or desire that dominates the mind; an obsession
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Idée Fixe
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The speech habits peculiar to a particular person
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Idiolect
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A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
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Idiom
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One of the requirements demanded under socialist realism. Literature must embody ideas, especially political and social ideas, of a progressive nature. Censors and critics do not accept literature lacking in ideological content, or literature which is merely intended to divert or entertain
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Ideynost
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An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one
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Idyll
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Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
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Imagery
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A movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language
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Imagists
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A series of words said as a magic spell or charm
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Incantation
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A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense
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Indirect speech
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A story which initally begins in the middle of the narrative
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In medias res
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A first-person voice which directly addresses the reader, and is a device closely associated with the realist novelists of the 19th c. such as George Eliot and Tolstoy
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Intrusive Narrator
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A state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world
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Ivory Tower
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A piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts
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Interior Monologue
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The interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other
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Intertextuality
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The hypothetical reader that a work is addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes, etc, may differ from another reader's
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Implied reader
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