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20 Cards in this Set
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Literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure |
Satire |
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Figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole |
Synecdoche |
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Attitude of narrator towards a subject |
Tone |
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A style of writing that is typically complex |
Abstract |
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A comparison |
Analogy |
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Short narrative |
Anecdote |
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When the action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect |
Anticlimax |
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A repeated use of vowel sounds |
Assonance |
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Accepted masterpiece |
Classic |
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Word of phrase used in everyday English |
Colloquialism |
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Specific word choice an author uses |
Diction |
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Grating of incompatible sounds |
Dissonance |
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Crude simplistic verse |
Doggerel |
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Secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character |
Foil |
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An event that suggests a larger event to come |
Foreshadowing |
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Poetry written without regular rhyme scheme |
Free verse |
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Latin for "in the midst of things" |
In media res |
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Subcategory of literature |
Genre |
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Weakness of an otherwise good individual |
Tragic flaw |
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Use of a word to modify two or more words |
Zeugma |
