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10 Cards in this Set
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Kenning
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A descriptive name used in place of the character's actual name
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Alliteration
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A repetition of the same sound in consecutive words
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Allusion
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A reference to a real event or thing
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Caesura
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A forced pause within a line of poetry
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Foreshadowing
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A preview of an event in the future
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Personification
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Giving an non-human object human characteristics, such as a tree's leaves whispering
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Epic
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A type of heroic ancient story that has many necessary characteristics
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The only surviving epic from Anglo-Saxon time
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"Beowulf"
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The length of a paragraph in Expository Writing
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Up to a page in a lot of cases
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Special Grammar assignment
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To make a sentence that contains not only the vocabulary word but also two verbs that are parallel in tense.
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