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20 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm |
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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Sarcasm |
A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
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Satire |
Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule |
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Scansion |
A system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line |
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Sestet |
A six line stanza. Refers to the second division of an Italian sonnet |
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Simile |
A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with like, as, or, than. |
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Sonnet |
Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. |
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Stanza |
Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
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Strategy |
The management of language for a specific effect |
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Structure |
The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work |
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Style |
The mode of expression in a language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author |
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Symbol |
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. |
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Synecdoche |
A form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole |
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Syntax |
The ordering of words into patterns or sentences |
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Tercet |
A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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Terza rima |
A three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. |
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Theme |
The main thought expressed by a work. |
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Tone |
The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning |
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Understatement |
It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. |
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Villanelle |
A nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. |
