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42 Cards in this Set
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Allegory |
a story in which each aspect has a symbolic meaning ex: Fables |
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Anachronism |
"misplaced in time" |
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Anecdote |
a short narrative |
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Anecedent |
the word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces |
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anthropomorphism |
when inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation |
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Anticlimax |
occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect |
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*Apostrophe |
an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea |
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Bathos |
when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup |
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Pathos |
when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy |
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Black Humor |
the use of disturbing themes in comedy |
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bombast |
pretentious exaggeratedly learned language |
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burlesque |
broad parody that takes a style or a form, like tragic drama, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness |
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Cacophony |
in poetry, deliberately harsh, awkward sounds |
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Canto |
the name for a section division in a long work of poetry divides like chapters divide a novel |
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*caricature |
a portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality |
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Catharsis |
refers to teh "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through experiences presented on stage |
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classic |
accepted masterpiece |
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coinage |
a new word, usually invented on the spot |
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Colloquialism |
word or phrase used in everdya conversational english that isn't part of the accepted "schoolbook" English |
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Complex, dense |
suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words, there are subtleties and variations |
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*Conceit, controlling image |
a startling or unusual metaphor or to a metaphor developed and expanded over several lines; when the image dominates and shapes the entire work it's a controlling image |
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Dirge |
a song for the dead |
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Dissonance |
grating of incompatible sounds |
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doggerel |
crude simplistic verse often in sing-son rhyme |
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dramatic monologue |
when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience |
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elegy |
a type of poem that meditates on death r mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. Elegies often use the recent death of a noted person or loved one as a starting point. They also memorialize specific dead people |
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*enjambment |
the combination of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause |
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euphemism |
word or phrase that takes the plae of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. |
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euphony |
when sounds bend harmoniously |
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farce |
refers to extremely broad humor |
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feminine rhyme |
lines rhymed by their final two syllables |
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foot |
basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry |
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hubris |
the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall |
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requiem |
song of prayer for the dead |
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rhapsody |
an intensely passionate verse or section of verse usually of love or praise |
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*satire |
exposes common character flaws with humor, they attempt to improve things by pointing out peoples mistakes in hope that it will make them less common |
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subjunctive mood |
set up a hypothetical solution |
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suspension of disbelief |
the demand made of a theater audience to accept limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination |
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technique |
how the author writes; ex: in poetry onomatopoeia is a technique in rhythm |
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truism |
a way too obvious truth |
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utopia |
an idealized place |
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zeugma |
the use of a word to modify two or more words but used for different meanings ex: he closed the door and his heart on his lost love |
