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22 Cards in this Set
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Blank Verse
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poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters.
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Iamb
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a foot. Unstressed symbol, stressed symbol
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Iambic Pentameter
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The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line, which is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet".
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Apostrophe
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an address to an imaginary or absent person or a personification
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Aside
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happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage
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Soliloquy
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a long speech of deliberation given by a character alone on stage.
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Harmartia
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a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
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Hyperbole
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exaggerated statement not meant to be taken seriously
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Horation Satire
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voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up a gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader a wry smile
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Peripetea
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The "fatal flaw" brings the hero down from his/her elevated state
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Anagnorisis
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a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery.
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Catharsis
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the audience's purging of emotions through pity and fear
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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Tragic flaw
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refers to a personality trait of a main character that leads to his or her downfall.
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Prose
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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
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Incongruity
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out of place — something that doesn't fit in its location or situation.
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Juvenalian satire
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formal satire in which the speaker attacks vice and error with contempt and indignation. It, in its realism and its harshness is in strong contrast to Horatian satire
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Rhyming Couplet
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is two line of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought.
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Alliteration
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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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Exemplum
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A brief story used to make a point in an argument or to illustrate a moral truth.
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Fable
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short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
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Fabliau
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a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry.
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