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55 Cards in this Set
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Absurd |
irrational, ridiculous, illogical |
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aesthetic |
artistic focus on what is beautiful |
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Allegory |
story in verse or prose w/ a surface meaning |
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Alliteration |
figure of speech which consonants or stressed syllables are repeated |
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Allusion |
implicit reference to another work of literature or art |
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ambiguity |
when something can be taken more than one way / another meaning |
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anachronism |
placing an event person item or verbal expression in the wrong historical period |
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Analogy |
comparison of 2 pairs - have same relationship |
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anapest |
metrical foot used in poetry consisting of 2 short unstressed syllables Followed by a stressed one |
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anecdote |
a brief account of or a story about an individual or incident |
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antagonist |
in drama or fiction antagonist opposes hero |
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Anthropomorphism |
human forms or qualities - gods and goddesses not human |
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anti- climax |
(BATHOS) last part of sentence is lower than first part |
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anti- hero |
unlucky tactless stupid buffoon |
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antithesis |
opposition or contrast of ideas by paralleling opposites |
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aphorism |
brief saying embodying a moral - pointed words |
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Apostrophe |
thing place abstract quality idea addressed as present |
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archetype |
usage of object as it originally made - universally recognized idea type |
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Aside |
in drama, words spoken in undertone inaudible to other characters |
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assonance |
vocalic rhyme has repetition of vowel sounds |
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asyndeton |
conjunctions deliberately admitted from series of clauses |
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attitude |
matter of thinking feeling or behaving |
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aubade |
morning love song |
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Ballad |
Form of verse- from medieval French Chanson or ballade (dancing songs) |
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Bathos |
(ANTICLIMAX) unintentional lapse in mood from sublime -ridiculous |
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Bildungsroman |
story where protagonist undergoes growth/ coming of age narrative |
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blank verse |
Unrhymed 5 stress lines |
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Byronic hero |
rebellious arrogant exiled enticingly romantic |
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Cacophony |
(opposite of euphony) harsh sounds |
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cadence |
melodic pattern preceding end of sentence- rising and falling of language |
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Caesura |
break or pause in line of poetry - natural rhyme |
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Caricature
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A portrait that ridicules a person by exaggerating or distorting his most prominent features/
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Catastrophe
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The tragic outcome of play or story
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Catharsis
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Purging or cleansing of emotions thru fear and pity
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Chiasmus
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"placing crosswise" reversal of grammatical structures to balance one another
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Cinquain
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poetry that employs a 5-line pattern
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Cliche
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over-used expression
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Climax
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point of story where crisis is reached and resolution is acheived
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Comic Relief
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comic episodes or interludes aimed to relieve tension
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Conceit
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denotes fairly elaborate device intended to surprise and delight by its wits
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Conflict
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tension in a situation; characters moral dilemma
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Connotation
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suggestion or implication evoked by word or phrase, over and above its meaning
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Consonance
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close repetition of identical consonant
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Conundrum
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confusing and difficult problem or question; a riddle
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Couplet
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2 successive rhyming lines
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Crisis
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stage in a sequence of events at which future
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Dactyl
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poetic foot that has a long syllable followed by 2 short syllables
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Denotation
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most literal meaning of a word, regardless of suggestions and ideas it connotes
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denouement
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"unknotting" unraveling of a plot's complications at the end of a story
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Diction
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writers vocal usage and word choice
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Dissonance
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arrangement of cacophonous sounds in words or rhythmical patterns
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Dogma
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a tenet, doctrine, law or principle
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Dramatic irony
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when audience knows implication and meaning but characters do not
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Dumb-show
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Mimed dramatic performance that prepares the audience for the main action of play
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Dystopia
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imagined place or state where everything is unpleasant
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