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51 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same sounding letters (at the beginning of each word)
(ex. “sally sells sea shells.”) |
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds within a phrase
(ex. “The women come and go// Talking of Michelangelo.”) |
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Onomatopoeia
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A word that sounds like the word it describes
(ex. “bang” or “crash”) |
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Perfect rhyme
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The sound of two words is exactly alike
(ex. moon and june) |
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Near/slant rhyme
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The sound of two words is close but not exact
(ex. read and red) |
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
(ex. Shakespeare) |
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Free verse
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Uses unrhymed, colloquial speech patterns and breath pauses to shape the poetic line
(ex. Ginsberg) |
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Tone
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The way the author conveys their attitude towards the subject
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Denotative
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The actual dictionary definition of a word
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Connotative
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Other possible meanings of a word
(ex. “don’t sweat it!”) |
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Syntax
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The arrangement of words
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Imagery
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Suggests a mental picture of sensory impressions (visual, aural, tactile, etc.)
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Abstractions
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Describes ideas or qualities, rather than people, places or things
(ex. beauty and truth) |
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Simile
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A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’
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Metaphor
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A comparison without using ‘like’ or ‘as’
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Narrative Poetry
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Tells a story
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Lyric Poetry
(what is it, what does it include) |
Personal or emotional; includes:
1) Elegy 2) Ode 3) Sonnet |
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Ode
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Formal, serious poem of praise, often presenting philosophic ideas and moral concerns
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Elegy
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Serious, contemplative poem written to lament someone’s death and memorialize his or her life
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Sonnet
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A fourteen line poem (most popularized by Shakespeare)
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Plot
(what is it, what does it include) |
Structuring of events; includes:
- Exposition - Rising action - Climax - Falling action - Conclusion |
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Exposition
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Background/setting of the characters and conflict
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Rising action
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The specific events that set the conflict in motion
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Climax
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Emotional high point of the narration
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Falling action
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Events begin to wind down and point the reader towards the conclusion
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Conclusion/ending
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Resolution of the conflict (to a certain degree)
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Theme
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Meaning
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Characters
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People involved in what happens in the story
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Protagonist
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Central character
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Antagonist
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Character in conflict with the central character
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Setting
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Place, time, social context
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Point of view
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Writer’s choice of narrator
(ex. I = 1st person) (ex. You = 2nd person) (ex. He/She = 3rd person) |
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Allegory
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A story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning (e.g., extended metaphor)
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Foreshadowing
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The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story
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the use of...
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Dialogue
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Exchange of words between characters
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Staging
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Setting
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Theme
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What’s it about/what’s the point?
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John Donne
(x - x) |
Early 17th century
(1572 – 1631) |
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Robert Frost
(x - x) |
20th century
(1874 – 1963) |
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Walt Whitman
(x) |
19th century
(1819 – 1892) |
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Alan Ginsberg
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20th century
(1926 – 1997) |
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Emily Dickinson
(x) |
19th century
(1830 – 1886) |
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Sylvia Plath
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20th century
(1932 – 1963) |
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Grace Paley
(x) |
20th century
(1922 – 2007) |
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Sherwood Anderson
(x) |
early 20th century
(1876 – 1941) |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(x) |
19th century
(1804 – 1864) |
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Edgar Allen Poe
(x) |
19th century
(1809 – 1849) |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(x - x) |
19th - 20th century
(1860 – 1935) |
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Ernest Hemingway
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20th century
(1899 – 1961) |
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William Shakespeare
(x - x) |
16th - 17th century
(1564 – 1616) |
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Euripides
(x) |
5th century
(480 BC – 406 BC) |
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