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17 Cards in this Set
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pun
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play on words
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soliloquy
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character revealing innermost thoughts alone on stage
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iambic pentameter
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five-beat poetic line
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pathos
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appeal to emotion
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antithesis
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use of opposites for effect
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hubris
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excessive pride
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metaphor
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compares two things without using like or as
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pathetic fallacy
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when unnatural chaotic events occur in nature, warning about chaos in human society
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tricolon
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three things placed in order of significance
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aside
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speaks to the side
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parallel structure
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two similar structures are mirrored against each other
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imagery
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evokes the senses
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tragic flaw
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the flaw that causes the down fall of a character
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hamarita
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fatal flaw
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logos
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appeal to logic or factual evidence
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apostrophe
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when a character speaks to an absent person or object as if he or she were present
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prose
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language that is not peotry
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