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16 Cards in this Set
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repetition
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repeating words or phrases for emphasis and for memory
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soliloquy
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an utterance or speech by a person who is talking to him/herself. A device in drama to disclose a character's inner thoughts.
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dramatic irony
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the dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand a situation while characters in the play remain unaware of the situation
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anagnorisis
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critical moment of recognition or discovery
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harmartia
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a mistake in judgment- a "tragic flaw"
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poetic justice
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the rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner
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symbol
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anything that stands for or represents something else
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alliteration
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds
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personification
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a type of figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were somthing else without using like or as
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unreliable narrator
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a narrator that is biased and lies
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sonnet
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a 14 line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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iambic pentameter
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beat of a poem (used in Romeo and Juliet)
patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables iamb - unstressed followed by a stress penta - 5 |
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imagery
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a figure of speech used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
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oxymoron
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a combination of contradictory words
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senesthesia
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The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.
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