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30 Cards in this Set
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Ad hoc |
Concerned or dealing with a specific subject |
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Ad hominem |
Directing argument against someone |
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Ad populum |
Bandwagon |
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Ambiguity |
Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language |
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Ellipsis |
Removing words understood to be there |
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Freight train |
Sentence consisting of 3 or more short independent clauses joined by conjunctions |
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Litotes |
Saying something negative for asserting a statement yo won't be sorry for you'll be glad |
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Periodic |
Yoda |
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Post hoc |
Being a ******* |
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Stream of consciousness |
Uninterrupted thoughts |
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Anapest |
Line in poem first 2 syllables unstressed third stressed |
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Angst |
Deep anxiety and dread |
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Ballad stanza |
A four line stanza in iambic meter which the first and the third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet |
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Canto |
One of the sections into which certain long poems are divided |
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Chiasmus |
When words are repeated in reverse order ex. I like black good food and good black beans |
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Comedy of manners |
A comedy that satirize behaviour in a particular social group especially the upper classes |
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Companion poem |
A poem associated with another which it compliments |
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Dactyl |
Metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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Elegy |
A poem of serious reflection typically a lament for the dead |
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Ennui |
A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lock of occupation or excitement |
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Epigraph |
An inscription on a building statue or coin |
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Farce |
A common dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations |
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Idyll |
An extremely happy peaceful or picturesque episode or a en typically idealized or unsustainable one |
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Meter |
The rhythm of a piece of poetry determined by the number and length in a line |
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Pastoral poem |
Having the simplicity charm serenity or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas |
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Scansion |
The acting of scanning a line to determine rhythm |
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Sonnet sequence |
A group of sonnets to make a long poem can each be read by themselves |
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Spondee |
A foot consisting of two long syllables |
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Trochee |
A foot consisting of a long syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
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Zeugma |
When a word applied to two others in different sense ex. John and his license expired last week |
