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18 Cards in this Set
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Alliterative Verse
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repetition on consonant sounds, unifies lines of poetry
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Couplet
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pair of rhymed lines in poetry
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Elegy
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poem of mourning
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Carpe diem
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"seize the day"
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Allusion
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reference to a person or event outside of the text, already known to the reader
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Town Eclogue
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poem about fashionable society instead of pastoral subject
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Geats
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Beowulf's tribe
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Kenning
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a compound word that employs figurative language in place of a word
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Pastoral
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shepherd poetry
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Petrarchanism
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theme of wanting what you cant have, only describing beauty
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Volta
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the turn in a sonnet, point of dramatic change
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Folio
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large size book, printing term
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Neoclassicism
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new classics, movement in the 18th century
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Metaphysical Poet
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relates the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses
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Arthurian Romance
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mixture of myth, adventure, and love
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Sylph
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creatures of the air, souls of dead women who protect Belinda
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Quarto
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small size book, printing term
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Canon
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group of texts regarded as having been written by a certain author
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