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79 Cards in this Set
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derived from marxism, capitalism leaves us separated from our human natures
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alienation
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a story that corresponds to another situation an a deeper level
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allegory
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
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alliteration
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reference providing additional layers to the text
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allusion
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when language and tone are unclear
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ambiguity
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coexistence of opposing attitudes
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ambivalence
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opposite
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antithesis
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address to a dead, absent, or inanimate object
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apostrophe
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repetition of vowel sounds
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assonance
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specific place, setting, or surroundings
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atmosphere
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sudden dissent from serious to ridiculous
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bathos
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development of a character from youth to maturity
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bildungsroman
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poetry with no definite rhyme but definite rhythm
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blank verse
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break within a line of verse
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caesura
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exaggerated representation of a character
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caricature
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everyday speech or language
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colloquial
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an elaborate metaphor
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conceit
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perceptible by the senses
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concrete
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suggested meaning of a word
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connotation
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final consonants are the same
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consonance
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stating the opposite of what has been said or suggested
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contradiction
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2 consecutive rhyming lines of verse
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couplet
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forcing the audience to see common things in a new or strange way
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defamiliarization
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conclusion
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denouement
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choice of words in speaking or writing
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diction
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instructive, intended to teach
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didactic
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an character who is unaware while the audience and other characters are aware
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dramatic irony
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a poem of mourning
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elegy
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a poetic line that ends in a full pause
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end-stopped line
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a line of verse with no pause
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enjambment
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a witty saying
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epigram
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the arrangement of a work's parts and structures
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form
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peom without any definite rhyme nor rhythm
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free verse
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specific type of literature
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genre
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accepted assumptions and values
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grain
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intended exaggeration
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hyperbole
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an unstressed syllable followed by stressed
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iambic
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a simple, idealized rural setting
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idyll/idyllic
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concrete descriptions in reference to the 5 senses
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imagery
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a monologue given as a thought
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interior monologue
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rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse
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internal rhyme
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discrepancy b/w what is said and what is intended, or what is expected and actually done
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irony
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song like poem of thoughts and feelings
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lyric
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comparison
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metaphor
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organization of lines of verse into rhythmic patterns
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metre
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suggesting movement, size, shape or texture
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mimesis
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state of mind or emotion
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mood
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one character speaking at length on stage
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monologue
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dominant theme
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motif
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all knowing narrator
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omniscient narrator
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a word that imitates the sound it represents
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onomatopoeia
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a figure of speech combining two contradicting terms
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oxymoron
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an apparently contradictory statement which contains its own truth
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paradox
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imitation to ridicule
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parody
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respectful imitation
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pastiche
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social role or an actors character
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persona
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use of human characteristics in inanimate objects
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personification
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the arrangement of events in a novel
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plot
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the related experience of the narrator
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point of view
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the main character in a work
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protagonist
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stanza of 4 lines
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quatrain
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repetition of a phrase or line
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refrain
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flow of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables
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rhythm
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exposing and ridiculing human society
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satire
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context in which the work takes place
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setting
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comparison using like or as
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simile
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narration mirrors everyday speech
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skaz
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speech by a character alone on stage
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soliloquy
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14 line rhyming poem in iambic pentameter
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sonnet
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blocks of lines in a poem
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stanza
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the events of a narrative in chronological order of how they happened
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story
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random stream of thoughts
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stream of consciousness
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distinctive traits of an authors work
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style
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ideas existing underneath what is said
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subtext
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objects used to represent ideas or concepts
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symbol
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grammatical structure of words in a sentence
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syntax
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central ideas or issues
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theme
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technique of writing to convey the attitude of the writer towards his subject
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tone
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a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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trochee; trochaic
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