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24 Cards in this Set
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Canto
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A major division in a long poem
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Tercet
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Three line stanza
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Terza Rima
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An Italian poetry form that Dante uses in the Divine Comedy; three line stanza form with rythme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, dcd
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Allegory
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story that is heavy on symbolism
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Dynamic Character
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character that changes in the course of the story
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Static Character
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character that does not change
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Indirect Characterization
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when you develop a character through action and dialogue
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Couplet
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Irony
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A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality
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Symbol
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a person, place, or thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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fourteen line lyric poems that is written in iambic pentameter; Italian in origin, famous because of Petrarch; involves two main parts and octave(8) and a sestet(6), and turning point is the volta.
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Shakespearian Sonnet
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fourteen line lyric poems that is written in iambic pentameter; originated in England popular because of William, made up of three quatrains, and a couplet
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octave
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eight line stanza
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sestet
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six line stanza
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volta
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turning point between the octave and the sestet in the Petrarchan Sonnet
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quatrain
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four line stanza
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blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter. All Shakespeare’s plays are written in blank verse
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Globe Theater
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in London an early theater were many of Shakespeare’s play were performed
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The Decameron
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ten characters tell stories over ten days total 100 stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Romanticism
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18 to 19 century a movement in literature which focuses on using the imagination nature is an important part in it
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Realism
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action against romanticism can afterwards, focusing on the average person, and the hero of a realist story is a average person, stories intended to be like real life
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Epiphany
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sudden realization
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Magic Realism
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mixing of realism with fantasy; story that we read that shows this is the handsome drowned man; originated in Columbia; Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the father of magic realism
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Existentialism
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- is a modern European philosophy that emphasizes the meaningless by recognizing of the outer world.
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