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75 Cards in this Set
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moira
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individual fate
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hamartia
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tragic flaw
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hubris
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self pride which creates suffering
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catharsis
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emotional purgation felt by the audience of a tragedy
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lex talionis
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law of the talon; eye for an eye
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logos
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the word; power of argument and logic
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anagnoresis
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moment of recognition in a tragedy- ignorance to knowledge
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oikos
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household; center of family
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ob skena
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off stage; too violent to show on stage
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peripeteia
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moment of reversal in a tragedy
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allegory
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using character/story elements to symbolically represent and abstraction in adition to literal meaning
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alliteration
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repetition of initial cononant sounds in 2 or more neighboring words
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allusion
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direct or indirect reference to something supposedly commonly known
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ambiguity
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multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage
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analogy
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similarity or comparison between 2 different things witha relationship between them.
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aphorism
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terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle
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apostrophe
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directly addressing an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction
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atmosphere
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emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, est. by setting and choice of objects described
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coloquial
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use of slang or informalities in speech or writing, conversational tone, local or regional dialects
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conceit
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fanciful expression, extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects
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connotation
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nonliteral, associative meaning of a word
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denotation
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strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude or color
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diction
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related to style, writer's word choices
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didactic
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teaching, works that aim to teach or instruct, moral or ethical principles
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euphemism
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good speech, less offensive substitutes
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extended metaphor
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metaphor developed at great lenth, occuring frequently in or throughout a work
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figurative language
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writing or speech not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid
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figure of speech
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device used to produce figurative language
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genre
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major category in which a literary work fits: prose, poetry and drama; fiction or nonfiction
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homily
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sermon, any serious talk, speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice
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hyperbole
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deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, comic effect
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imagery
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sensory details or fig. language used to descibe, arouse emotion, or represent abstraction
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inference
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to draw a reasonable concludion from information presented
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invective
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emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language
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irony
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contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant: verbal, situational, and dramatic
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metaphor
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using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things without using like or as
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metonomy
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"changed label" or "substitute name" one object substituted for something closely related
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mood
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prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
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narrative
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telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events
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onomatorpoeia
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natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words
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oxymoron
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"pointedly foolish", apparently contradictory terms grouped to suggest a paradox
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paradox
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statement that appears to be self-contradictory, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth
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parallelism
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framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity
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parody
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work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and ridicule
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personification
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author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human characteristics
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point of view
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persprective from which story is told
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prose
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one major divisions of genre- fiction or nonfiction, written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech- not poetry or drama
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repetition
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duplication, either exact or approcimate of any element of language
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sarcasm
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bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something
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satire
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work that targets human vices and follies or social insititution or conventions for reform or ridicule
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style
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sum of choices an author make in blending diction, syntax, fig language, and other
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syllogism
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deductive system of formal logic that presents two premise: major and minor
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symbol
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anything that represents or stands forsomething else
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syntax
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the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
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theme
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central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life
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tone
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similar to mood, describes author's attitude toward his or her material
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transition
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word or phrase that links different ideas.
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understatement
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ironic minimalizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. humorous and emphatic
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attitude
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writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of writing
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soliloquoy
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speech in which the character speaks his thoughts alone
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rhetorical question
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question asked for effect, not asking for reply
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stereotype
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conventional pattern, expression, character or idea
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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end-stopped
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line with a pause at the end, lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point or question mark
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free verse
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poetry not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical
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heroic couplet
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2 end-stopped iambic pentameter lines, rhymed with the thought usually completed in the 2 line unit
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hexameter
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line containing six feet
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iamb
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2 syllable foot, unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable, most common foot
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internal rhyme
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rhyme occurs within a line rather than the end
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pentameter
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line containing five feet
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rhyme royal
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seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc
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sonnet
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14 line iambic pentameter poem
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stanza
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usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme
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terza rima
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three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc
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tetrameter
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line of four feet
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