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21 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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prose
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nonpoetic writing
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poesy
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poetry
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epic
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narrative, heroic poem
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idyll
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poetic view of rural life
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couplet
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two rhyming lines
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doggerel
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poor or trivial verse
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caesura
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pause in poetry
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epilogue
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concluding section
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anthology
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collection of literary works
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tome
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large book
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disquisition
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formal essay
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allegory
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symbolic story
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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personification
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embodiment or attribution of human qualities
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irony
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inconsistency between appearance and reality
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paradox
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statement that says two opposite things with an element of truth
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pun
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play on words
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browse
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look over casually
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peruse
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examine carefully
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collate
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compare or arrange
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plagiarism
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stealing of words or ideas
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