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10 Cards in this Set
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Caesura |
A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence
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Empathy |
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
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Sympathy |
Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
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Emphasis |
Stress given to a word or words when speaking to indicate particular importance
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Cliché |
An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty
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Couplet |
A pair of successive lines of verse
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Sonnet |
A fourteen line poem, written in iambic pentameter |
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Rhetorical question |
A question that is asked without expecting an answer |
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Rhetoric |
Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect
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Conceit |
When two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. |
