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14 Cards in this Set
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Speaker(in a poem)
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The voice that is talking to us in a poem
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extended metaphor
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a metaphor that extends for several lines
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dialect
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way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people
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connotations
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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests.
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denotation
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dictionary definition
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tone
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the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
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subjective statement
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when a writer reveals their own thoughts, judgments, feelings, and attitudes into the writing
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objective statement
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when the writing only contains faces and gives no clue to the writer's thoughts and feelings.
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Indirect characterization
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to have to put clues together to understand what the character was like.
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direct characterization
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the writer tells directly what the character is like.
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free verse
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poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
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blank verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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aphorism
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wise sayings
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dramatic monologue
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a character gives a dramatic speach to a group of actors on a stage
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