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43 Cards in this Set
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Gothic
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combines fiction, horror, romanticism
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the Sublime
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sense of height or loftiness
grandeur |
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Aesthetic Alibi
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freedom of expression is admissible in the context of artistic expression
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Allusion
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makes reference to place, person, or something that happened
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Scope and Scale
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the range of one's perceptions, thoughts or actions
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Point of View
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first person-I, me, mine
second person-you, your third person-outsider looking at action |
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Theme
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main idea
underlying meaning |
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Motif
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element, subject, idea, concept consistently present throughout body of work
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Irony
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intended meaning different from actual meaning
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Epiphany
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character achieves realization
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Quest
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journey towards a goal
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Imagery
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figurative language to represent objects in a way that appeals to physical senses
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Symbolism
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use of symbols to convey ideas and qualities different from literal sense
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Connotation
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meaning implied by a word apart from what it describes explicitly
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Allegory
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abstract ideas and principles described in terms of characters, figures, and events
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Novel of Manners
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realistic story that concentrates the reader's attention upon the customs and conversation, and the ways of thinking and valuing of the people of a social class
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Historical Fiction
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plot takes place in a setting located in the past
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Suspense
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anxiety or anticipation
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Liminality
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threshold
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Story and Discourse
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Story=chronology of events
Discourse=manipulation of chronology |
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Villanelle
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nineteen line poem
two repeating rhymes two refrains five tercets, 1 quatrain |
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Sestina
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six stanzas of six lines
each followed by three line envoie |
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Sonnet
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fourteen line poem
iambic pentameter petrarchan=two stanzas, 8+6 shakesperean=3 quatrains and couplet |
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Dramatic Monologue
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poem written as if speech of an individual character
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Paratext
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material that surrounds main text
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Tenor
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component of metaphor
concept, object or person meant |
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Vehicle
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component of metaphor
image that carries weight of comparison |
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Public Symbol
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well-known meaning
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Private Symbol
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individual artist arbitrarilly assigns meaning to
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Conceptual Metaphor
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understanding one idea in terms of another
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Caesura
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complete pause in a line of poetry
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Enjambment
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incomplete syntax at the end of the line
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Iambic
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unstressed followed by stressed
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Trochaic
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stressed followed by unstressed
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Anapestic
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two unstressed followed by stressed
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Dactylic
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one stressed followed by two unstressed
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Dimeter
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two feet
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Trimeter
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three feet
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Tetrameter
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four feet
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Pentameter
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five feet
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Free Verse
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no metrical regularity
rhyme repetitive stanza form |
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Emphasis
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repetition of key words and phrases
careful arrangement of words |
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Summary
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brief account of main points
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