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32 Cards in this Set
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Active voice |
Sentence w/ active verb |
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Allegory |
Extended narrative with characters, actions and even setting contrived to make sense of on a literal level |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence or line or poetry. |
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Allusion |
Reference to another person, historical event, work, and the like. |
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analogy |
comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas |
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anaphora |
the repetition of words or phrasesat the beginning of consecutive lines orsentences |
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aphorism |
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apostrophe |
a figure of speech in which onedirectly addresses an absent or imaginaryperson, or some abstraction
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assonance |
n poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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blank verse |
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. |
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caesura |
A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics. |
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carpe diem |
latin for "seize the day" |
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connotation |
the implied or associative meaningof a word |
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consonance |
refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter. |
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couplet |
literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. |
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denotation |
the literal meaningof a word |
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dialect |
a variety of speech characterizedby its own particular grammar orpronunciation, often associatedwith a particular geographical region |
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diction |
the word choices madeby a writer |
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elegy |
a formal poempresenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme |
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ellipses |
used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. It is usually written between the sentences as “…”. |
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epistrophe |
stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences |
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foil |
character that shows qualities that are in contrastwith the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character. |
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foot |
measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. The stressed syllable is generally indicated by a vertical line (Ꞌ), whereas the unstressed syllable is represented by a cross (x). The combination of feet creates meter in poetry. |
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free verse |
literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. |
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hyperbole |
intentionalexaggeration to create an effect |
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Imagry |
Lang that appeals to ones senses |
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Irony |
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Jargon |
Pattern of speech & vocab associated with a particular group |
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Juxtaposition |
Placement of one idea next to its opposite to add drama |
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Lyric |
Poem in which author expresses intense emotion or thoughts |
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Malapropism |
Form of comic word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar |
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Metaphor |
Figure of speech in which implicit comparison is made b/w 2 things that are essentially dissimilar. |
