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10 Cards in this Set
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BALLAD STANZA
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A four-line stanza often used in ballads, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and having four metrical feet in the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth.
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CONCEIT
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A favorable and especially unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth.
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FARCE
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A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect.
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EXPEDENT
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Appropriate to a purpose
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FORESHAWDOW
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To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand
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CHIASMUS
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A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye.
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DIALECT
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, variety of speech differing from the standard literary language of the culture in which it exists.
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ANAPESTIC
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A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen.
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ENJAMBMENT
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Breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses.
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FORMAL DICTION
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Language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal.
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