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19 Cards in this Set
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Narrative Poetry |
Epics and ballads (the Iliad, the Odyssey) |
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Lyrical Poetry |
For example: hymns/odes and elegies, which utter anintense emotional cry |
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Dramatic Poetry |
Like the dramatic monologue that are implied to have a speaker |
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Diction |
Certain words and grammatical constructions that the author chooses to use. |
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Tone (poetry) |
Speakershave attitudes toward themselves, their subjects, and their audiences, and(consciously or unconsciously) they choose their words, pitch, and modulationaccordingly; all these add up to the tone. |
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Speaker/Persona |
Not necessarily the author. Could be a dramatized version of them, the reader, or some very distant, specified character. Persona in latin means "mask". |
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Satire |
in one way or another, ridicules an aspect or several aspects of human behavior, seeking to arouse in the reader some degree of amused contempt for the object. However urbane in tone, the satirist is always critical.
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Irony |
a kind of discourse which, though nonliteral, need not use similes, metaphors, apostrophes, personification, or symbols. Without using these figures, speakers may say things that are not to be taken literally.
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Hyperbole |
overstated ironic contradiciton |
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Paradox |
apparent contradiction i.e. the child is the father of the man |
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Metaphore |
Comparison not using like or as. Saying something is entirely something else. |
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Simile
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Comparison using like, as or than. |
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Metonymy
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something isnamed that replaces something closely related to it; "City Hall," fo1' example,sometimes is used to stand for municipal authority.
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Synecdoche
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the whole is replaced by the part, or the part by the whole.For example, bread in "Give us this day our daily bread" replaces the wholeclass of edibles. Similarly, an automobile can be "wheels," and workers are"hands."
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Personification |
The attribution of human feelings 01' characteristics to abstractions 01' to inanimateobjects
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Imagery
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whatever in a poem appeals to any of our sensations, including sensationsof pressure and heat as well as of sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound.
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Natural Symbols |
recognized as standing for somethingin particular even by people from different cultures.
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Symbol |
an image so loaded with significance that it is not simplyliteral, and it does not simply stand for something else; it is both itself and somethingelse that it richly suggests, a manifestation of something too complex ortoo elusive to be otherwise revealed |
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Conventional Symbols
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people haveagreed to accept as standing for something other than themselves: A poem aboutthe cross would probably be about Chl"istianity.
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