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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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is a metaphor that develops its comparison over several lines of a poem or even throughout a whole poem
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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
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subjective statement
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or personal, feelings and judgments
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objective statement
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facts, which means that they can be proved true
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tone
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the attitude a writer takes towards the reader, a subject, or a character
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aphorism
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a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observations about life
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INDIRECT characterization
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we have to put clues together to figure out what a character is like
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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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using 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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