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16 Cards in this Set
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Villanelle |
Poem with 5 3 line stanzas followed by a quatrain and only has 2 rhymed |
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Synesthesia |
Attempt to fuse different senses by describing 1 kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another |
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Aphorism |
Statement designed to make a point about a common belief |
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Satire |
Used to make fun of an idea or human vice |
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Bildungsroman |
Novel whose theme is the moral growth of the main character |
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Foil |
Person or thing that makes another seen better |
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Epistolary |
Piece of literature contained in by letter |
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Eulogy |
Speech in praise of a person or thing or in honor of a dead person |
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Epiphany |
Sudden or intuitive insight info the reality or meaning of something |
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Diction |
An authors choice of words |
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Utopia |
Imaginary place of ideal perfection |
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Deus ex machina |
Use of an artificial device to solve a difficult situation |
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Nostalgia |
Desire to return in thought |
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Chiasmus |
Figure of speech which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed |
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Litote |
Form of understatement in the negative |
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Doppleganger |
Ghostly counterpart of a living person or alter ego |
