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22 Cards in this Set
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unacknowledged references and quotations which authors make while assuming that readers will recognize the original sources and their meaning to the new context
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allusion
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a complete narrative that can also be applied to a parallel set of situations that may be political, moral, religious, or philosophical
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allegory
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the addressing of a discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; also a speech to an abstraction
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apostrophe
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a speech, usually short, delivered to a character by another character or to the audience; the speaker usually reveals his thoughts or plans
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aside
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a narrative poem composed of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimester, rhyming
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ballad
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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seize the day
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carpe diem
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Aristotle's concept that tragedy, by arousing pity and fear, regularizes and shapes the emotions, that that therefore tragedy is essential in civilized society
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catharsis
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the sequence of events in a work
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chronology
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the act of closing or the state of being closed
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closure
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a literary genre, songs of merrymakers, smiles and laughter
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comedy
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words that describe exact conditions or qualities
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concrete
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two line which may be unified by rhyme
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couplet
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resolution; final stage in plot development
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denouement
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in ancient Greek drama, the entrance of a god to unravel problems in a play; today it refers to the artificial and illogical; solution of problems
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deus ex machine
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a literary contrivance, such as a parallelism or personification, used to achieve a particular effect
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device
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language characteristics
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dialect
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the speeches of two or more characters in a play
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dialogue
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word choice, types of words, and the level of language
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diction
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intended to instruct
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didactic
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division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions
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dichotomy
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a long narrative poem elevation character, speech, and action
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epic
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