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47 Cards in this Set
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Abstract
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Having to do w/ concepts or qualities that cannot be directly seen or touched, such as love, justice, truth, beauty, and liberty.
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Allegory
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A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same/similar constant sounds
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Allusion
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Refrence to something from some branch of culture.
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Analogy
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A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike
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Anecdote
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a brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something
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Antagonist
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The opponent who struggles against the hero/protaganist. The villian
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Apostrophe
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A technique by which a writer addresses something that is dead or absent.
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Assonance
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The repetitition of vowel sounds
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Audience
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The people whom the writer is directing his words too
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Autobiography
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An account of a writer's own life.
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Ballad
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A song or poem that tells a story
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Biography
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An account of someone's life by someone else.
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Blank Verse poetry
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Poetry written w/ unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Cadence
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The natural rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoken
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Caesura
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A pause or break within a line of poetry
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Character
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An individual in a story/play
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Static Character
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A character that does not change much during the story
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Dynamic Character
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a character that changes a lot as a result of the story
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Flat Character
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A 1-dimensional character who has only 1 or two personality traits
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Round Character
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A multi-dimensional character who is complex just like real people.
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Cliché
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A word or phrase that has become lifeless because of overuse
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Climax
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The point in a story that creates the greatest intensity.
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Colloquialism
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Expressions that are appropriate for conversation but not for formal writing.
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Concrete
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Having to do w/ objects or qualities that can be percieved by the senses
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Conflict
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The Struggle between opposing forces in a story
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Connotation
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the emotional overtones that have been attached to a phrase in addition to its strict dictionary def.
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Consonance
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the repetition of the same constant sounds on accented syllables
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Couplet
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Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
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Denotation
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The basic dictionary meaning of a word w/o its associated meanings.
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Denouement
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The conclusion or unraveling of a story
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Dialect
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The way of speaking that is characteristic to a certain people or place.
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Diction
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a speaker/writer's choice of words
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Elegy
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A poem of mourning
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Epic
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A long narrative poem which recounts the deeds of a heroic character
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Euphemism
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A agreeable or less offensive subtitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept
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Exposition
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That part of a plot where the reader is given important background info on the characters. usually the prob. and setting.
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Fable
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a short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a moral
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Figure of Speech
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A device used to produce figurative language often comparing dissimilar things.
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Flashback
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A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence to depict something that happened earlier
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Foot
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A metrical unit of poetry
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Foreshadowing
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The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in the plot
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Free Verse
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no restriction in poetry
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Hyperbole
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gross exageration for effect
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Iamb
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a metrical foot in poetry that has a unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
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Iambic Pentameter
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A line of poetry that contains 5 iambic feet
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Imagery
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the use of language to evoke a pic of a person, a thing, a place, or an experince.
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