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29 Cards in this Set
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Amoral |
Not concerned with moral standards |
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Immoral |
in conformity of usual or excepted standard behaviour |
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Moral |
Capable of distinguishing between right and wrong |
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Farce |
Low comedy |
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Tragedy |
A main character passing through a series of unfortunate events leading to a catastrophe |
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Stanza |
A subdivision of a poem. May be organized by rhyme or number of lines. |
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Audience |
Intended reader or listener or observer of the peice |
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Narrative poetry |
Tells a story Making use of voices of a narrator or character. |
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Parody |
Work created to mock or comments on ( make fun of) of a peice of work itself. Humorous |
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Alliteration |
Repition of initial, the first sound |
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Assonance |
Repitition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry |
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Euphemism |
The use of a pleasant sounding word or phrase to avoid unpleasant things |
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Consonance |
Repitition of identical consonance ( Fred bed lead) |
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Hyperbole |
Obvious exaggeration of the fact. To cause serious effect |
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Imagery |
A word picture that appeals to the imagination |
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Metaphor |
A comparison between un like things |
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Mood |
The emotion component of a poem action/romance etc |
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Nick |
A word ,line ,phrase or stanza that grabs your attention |
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Anomatopoeia |
The sound a word would make to which it refers to ( buzz for a bee) |
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Oxymoron |
An expression that combines opposite ideas |
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Personification |
To give objects, animals or ideas human qualitys |
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Rhyme scheme |
Similar in sounds |
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Simile |
A comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as |
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Symbolism |
An object that represents something else or suggests other meanings. |
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Theme |
The meaning, main idea or essence of a poem |
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Purple prose |
Text that is so exaggerated ornate or flowery as to break the flow of the peice of writting |
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Name 4 types of paragraphs |
Discriptive, expository, persuasive narrative |
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Topic |
Item of discussion |
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Corroborate |
Confirm or support another person's statement |
