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22 Cards in this Set
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Ballad |
A story in poetic form often about tragic love and usually sung |
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Biography |
The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work |
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Blank verse |
A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Cacophony |
an unpleasant combination of sounds |
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Euphony |
A pleasant combination of sounds |
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Caesura |
A pause within a line of poetry which may or may not affect the metrical count |
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Canto |
A subdivision of an epic poem |
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Carpe Diem |
A Latin phrase which translated means "Sieze (Catch ) the day," meaning "Make the most of today" |
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Catastrophe |
The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or more destruction of the protagonist |
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Character |
A person or anything presented as a person, e.g., a spirit, object, animal, or natural force, in a literary work. |
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Characterization |
The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work |
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Classicism |
A movement or tendency in art music and literature to retain the characteristics found in the word originating in classical Greece and Rome |
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Climax |
The decisive moment in a drama it is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads |
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Comedy |
A literary work which is amusing and ends happily |
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Conceit |
Farfetched simile or metaphor. it occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissamular things |
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Conclusion |
Also called the resolution it is a point in a drama to watch the entire play has been leading |
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Concrete poetry |
A poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world |
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Conflict |
In the parts of a drama, it occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play |
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Connotation |
The emotional content of a word |
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Denotation |
The dictionary definition of a word |
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Consonance |
The repetition of consonant sounds with different vowel sounds in the words near each other in a line or lines of poetry |
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Couplet |
A stanza of two lines usually rhyming usually octosyllabic or deca syllabic |
