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72 Cards in this Set
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anapest
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a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
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anaphora
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repetition of the beginning of two or more successive lines, clauses or verses
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blank verse
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consists of lines of iambic pentameter which are unrhymed
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couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines
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dactyl
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a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
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elision
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the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable in a verse to achieve a uniform metrical pattern
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enjambment
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the carrying on of the sen of a line or couplet into the next line or couplet
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feminine rhyme
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rhyme consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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foot
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a group of syllables taken as a unit of poetic meter
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free verse
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a form of poetry without regular meter
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iamb
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a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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meter
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the pattern of measured sound units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse
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quatrain
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a four-line stanza
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slant rhyme
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is a rhyme in which the rhyme-sounds are similar but not identical
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sonnet
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a lyric poem written in a sing stanza which generally consists of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme
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spondee
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a metrical foot consisting of two successive syllables with approximately equal strong stresses
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stanza
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a grouping of the verse-lines in a poem, set off by space in the printed text
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trochee
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a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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ballad
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a narrative poem often composed in quatrains with alternating four-stress and three-stress iambic lines, the second and fourth lines rhyming
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comedy
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a narrative characterized by a change of fortune for the better
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elegy
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a formal lyric poem lamenting a death, generally of a friend or public figure, or reflecting seriously on a solemn subject
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epic
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a long narrative poem addressing in elevated language a historical or mythological subject on a grand scale
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epigraph
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printed alone on the title page or first page of the work, a quotation used to set the tone or theme of a literary work
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lyric
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any short poem in which the speaker expresses private thoughts and intense emotions as opposed to narrating a tale
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myth
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anonymously created stories which arise from specific cultural groups and explain history, traditions, creation and humanity
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ode
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a meditative form of the lyric poem that is generally long, serious and addressed to a person, abstract entity or object
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parody
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a comic and exaggerated imitation usually intended to criticize a style or an author's work
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pastiche
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a literary work composed of elements borrowed either from various other writers or from a particular earlier writer
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pastoral
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an elaborately conventional moder of writing expressing the author's nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of shepherds and other rural folk in an idealized rural setting
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romance
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a fictional work in verse or prose involving idealized characters, high adventure, love, mysterious circumstances and often unbelievable triumphs
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satire
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a literary work characterized by irony, with and sometimes sarcasm intended to highlight human vices often in an implicit effort to initiate change or reform
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tragedy
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a serious drama involving a change of fortune from better to worse for a character of elevated status or great virtue who experiences a conflict between two imperatives
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anagorisis
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the point of recognition that leads to a reversal of fortune in a narrative
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bildungsroman
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german term signifying a "novel of formation". a novel that follows the development of the protagonist from childhood into adulthood
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catharsis
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the psychological effect of tragedy on the audience as an emotional cleansing that explains the benefit an audience feels while witnessing the events of a tragedy
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chorus
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a group of singers distinct from the principal performers in a drama or musical, and the song or refrain that they sing
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denouement
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refers to the final scene of resolution where the action or intrigue ends in success or failure for the protagonist, the mystery is solved, or the misunderstanding cleared away
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deus ex machina
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a "god from a machine" lowered to the stage by a mechanical contrivance to solve the problems of the play all at once
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direct discourse
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a type of exposition in which a character's utterances or thought are integrated into another utterance or thought through a back-shift of tenses and a shift from first-person to third-person pronouns
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free indirect discourse
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a type of exposition representing a character's utterances or thoughts
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foil
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a character whose qualities or actions emphasize those of the protagonist by providing strong contrast
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foreshadowing
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a technique or device by which some situation or event is hinted at in advance
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framed narrative
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a narrative in which another narrative is embedded
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hamartia
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an error of judgment leading to the protagonist's downfall
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implied author
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the author's second self, mask or persona as reconstructed from the text
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in medias res
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latin meaning "into the middle of things". term refers to a method of starting narrative with an important situation or even in the middle of the story's action
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perpeteia
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the reversal from one state of affairs to its opposite as the result of an action that produces the opposite of its intended result, usually involving a downfall in a tragedy
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point of view
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pov describes the agent of perception
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protagonist
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the main character
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unreliable narrator
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may falsify the fictional account for selfish reasons, or narrator might be naive or ill-informed
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allegory
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a literary work in which objects, person, actions and sometimes settings systematically stand for ideas outside the work itself
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same sound, usually a consonant, in any sequence of neighboring works withing a passage
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allusion
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a figure of speech that makes a brief reference to a historical, mythological or cultural figure, event or object
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apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an absent or dead person, an abstraction or and object
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assoncance
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repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within a passage
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diction
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word choice
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ethos
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the character of the writer or speaker as reflected in speech or writing
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hyperbole
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a bold overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, used either for serious or comic effect
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imagery
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language that evokes sensation as opposed to an abstract idea
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invocation of the muse
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poet calls upon the power of a deity to speak through him or her and to help tell the tale
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irony
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a broad term referring to an incongruity between appearance and reality
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logos
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an appeal to reason invoking facts, statistics and evidence in order to convince an audience of a particular position
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metaphor
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a direct comparison not using "like" or "as"
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metonymy
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the substitution of the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it
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oxymoron
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a combination of contradictory of incongruous words expressed in a paradox
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pathos
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an appeal to emotion
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personification
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the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
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simile
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comparison using "like" or "as"
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soliloquy
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a speech delivered while the speaker is alone, calculated to inform the audience or the character's thoughts
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symbol
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an object or event that signifies something, or has a range of reference beyond itself
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech that uses part of something to signify the whole
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tone
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the attitude towards the subject and audience implied in a literary work
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