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20 Cards in this Set
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Act
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A section of a play
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Alliteration
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Words with the same letter at the beginning, which occur after another.
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Allusion
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A passing reference.
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Colloquialism
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A word or a phrase that is taken as informal typically used in conversations.
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Dramatic Irony
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The audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.
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Foil Characters
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Character that are opposite to the main characters.
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Foreshadowing
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It's an indication of a future event.
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Hyperbole.
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Exaggerated statements, that are not meant to be taken literally.
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Imagery
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Visually descriptive figurative language.
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two things, without using like or as.
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Motif
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A repeated theme, image, or character, which gieves the work a symbolic structure.
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Oxymoron.
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A word or phrase that contradicts itself.
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Personification
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The use of human characteristics applied to unrealistic things.
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Prologue
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Introductory seciton of a literary work.
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Pun
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A owrd that has more than one possible meaning. Mostly used as a joke.
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Repetition.
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Words that repeat.
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Rhyming Couplet
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Two lines in a verse, joined by rhyme. Those two lines normally have the same meter.
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Soliloquy
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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud by oneself.
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Sonnet
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14- lined poem. Uses iambic pentameter. Ends with a rhyming couplet.
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Theme
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The main idea of a piece of writing.
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