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20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Blank verse
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a unrhymed verse
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Allegory
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a strong lesson or moral in stories
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Climax
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the highest tension part of the story
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convention
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a meeting or a group of people that shares ideas
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couplet
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a pair of lines that rhymes in poetry
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elegy
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a type of poem that's sad
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foil
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a character that is a hero in a story
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration alcoholic
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elision
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cutting out one or more sounds in a word
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exposition
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gives background to inform the readers about the plot
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metonymy
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a figure of speech that use name
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onomatopoeia
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words that look like the sounds they are describing
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parody
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a piece of literature or writing
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protagonist
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the leader or the hero in a story
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recognition
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identify someone that is already known
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reversal
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a direction that changes
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stanza
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four or more lines that has a regular pattern in the number
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spondee
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two long syllables
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech.
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Ballad
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a single verse poem
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