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14 Cards in this Set
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Speaker
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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 extended over several lines of a poem and taken as far as they can logically go
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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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Connotation
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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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Denotation
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Literal meaning of a word
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Subjective statement
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Personal feelings and judgements
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Objective statement
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Writers thoughts and feelings
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Tone
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The attitude a write takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character.
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Aphorism
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A wise saying
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indirect characterization
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indirectly describing something, requires to put clues together to figure out
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direct characterization
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the writer tells us directly what the character is like
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dramatic monologue
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a character gives a dramatic speech to a group of actors on a stage
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free verse
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no 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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