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22 Cards in this Set
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a person, place, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself.
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parallelism
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the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that restate a similar idea.
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theme
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the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature.
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blank verse/iambic pentameter
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter/a line of poetry made up of 5 iambs.
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personification
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a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had life.
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allusion
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a reference to a statement, person, place, thing, or event that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
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tanka
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a traditional 5-line form of Japanese poetry.
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haiku
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a brief, unrhymed, 3-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s.
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imagery
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language that appeals to the senses.
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alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
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literary ballad
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composed & written down by known poets, usually in the style of folk ballads.
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assonance
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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simile
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as".
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extended simile
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epic or homeric simile; many parallels are made b/w 2 unlike things.
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apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
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irony
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a contrast or discrepancy b/w expectation and reality-b/w what is said and what is meant, b/w what is expected and what really happens, or b/w what appears to be true and what is really true.
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ode
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a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject.
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mood
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the feeling in a literary work.
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sonnet
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a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has 1 of several rhyme schemes.
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synthesia
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in literature, a term used for descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another.
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that makes a comparision between two seemingly unlike things w/o using a connective word such ad "like" or "as".
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terza rima
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an interlocking, 3-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba cdc ded...
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