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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Heroic Couplet
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Pair of rhymed lines in iambic patamenor
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Personification
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giving human qualities
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Blank Verse
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un-ryhmed iambic patemenor
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Broadside
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poem on one side tacked onto a door way
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Rehtorical Device
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overall technique used to inhance speech
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Repetition
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repeating
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Parallelism
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repetition of gramatical structure
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exclamations
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use of highly charged statement
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Appeal to Emotion
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inflamatory language that appels to emotions
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Call to Action
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urging listeners to do something
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Aphorism
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Brief statement that observes life
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Almanac
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annual collection of statistics
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Satirical
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holding something up to redicule
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Pseudonym
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use of a fake name
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self mad man
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the rags to riches story
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moral perfection
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living without commiting any faults
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tretise
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formal discusion of facts and principles
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denotation
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exact literal meaning
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cannotation
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positive or negative meaning
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