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17 Cards in this Set
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Genre
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Distinct types into which literary works can be grouped
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Gothic Literature
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Literature with grotesque characters, bizzare events and violent situations
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Haiku
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Japanes poetry; 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 7, 7, and 5 syllables
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Historical Context
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Social conditions that inspired or influenced its creation
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Historical Narratives
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Account of historical events by someone who experienced it or studied it
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Horror Fiction
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strange, mysterious, violent, and often supernatural events that create suspense and terror in the reader
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Humor
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term applied to entertain or envoke laughter
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Hyperbole
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Truth is exxagerated
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Iamb Meter
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unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable
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Iambic pentameter
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Metrical pattern of five feet, or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed
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Idiom
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Common figure of speech whose meaning is different from the meaning of the literal words
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Imagery
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Appealing to the five senses using descriptive words and phrases
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Interior Monologue
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Jumps back past to present; memory or impressions in a persons mind
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Internal Conflict
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Man versus himself
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Inverted Syntax
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Reversal in the expected order of words
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Interview
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Conversation conducted by a writer in which facts or statements are elicited from another person, recorded, and then broadcast and published
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Irony
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Contrast between appearance and reality
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