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10 Cards in this Set
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Juxtaposition |
placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast |
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koan |
a paradox used in Zen Buddhism to gain intuitive knowledge |
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legend |
narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements |
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limerick |
light verse consisting of five lines of regular rhythm in which the first, second, and fifth lines (each consisting of three feet) rhyme, and the second and third lines (each consisting of two feet) rhyme |
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limited narrator |
a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character |
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literary license |
deviating from normal rules or methods in order to achieve a certain effect (intentional sentence fragments, for example) |
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litotes |
a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite |
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local color |
a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape |
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loose sentence |
one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units |
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lyric poem |
a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feeling or thoughts of the speaker |
