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35 Cards in this Set
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narrative
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an account in prose or verse of an actual or fictional event or secquence of susch events: anything that is narrated
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lyric poetry
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a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, ereating a single unified impression
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satiric poetry
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a kind of comic poetry that gernerally conveys a message
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persona
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a fictious character: the authors voice in the poem
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irony
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saying something oppisite of its literal meaning
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dramatic irony
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the characters knowledge is limited, the action or words have a greater meaning to the reader than the character
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tragic irony
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dramatic irony in a tragidy
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cosmic irony
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some fate with a grim sense of humor that plays with human hopes and expectaions
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poetic diction
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lang used in poetry
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refrains
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words, phrases, or lines repeated at intervals in a song or poem
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terminal refrains
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immediately after a stanza
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internal refrain
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in the stanza
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stanza
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an arangement of lines providing a division in a poem
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ballad stanza
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4 lines ABCB
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exact rime
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sounds following the vowl sound have to be the same
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slant rime
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consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sound are differnt
*sun, bone, moon, rain, green |
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rhythm
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the stresses and pauses in a poem
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caesura
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a light but definite pause within a line (ll)
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iambic pentameter
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a line of 5 iambs (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syl)
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spondee
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a metrical foot consisting of 2 long or stressed syllables
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open form
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more of a process, not so perfect in lenght
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blank verse
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unrimed iambic pentameter
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petrarchan
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14 lines
abba, abba- octave new rime for the last 6 lines cdecde, or cdccdc, or cdcdcd |
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shakespearean sonnet
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14 lines
abab, cdcd, efef, gg |
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couplet
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2-lined stanza usally riming
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heroic couplet
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2 rimed lines of iambic pentameter
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quatrain
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4 lined stanza
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sestina
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6, 6-lined poem
repeats 6-end words in whatever order |
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epigram
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a short poem ending in a witty or ingenios turn of thought
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villanelle
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5 3-lined stanza (tercet) riming
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symbols
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a visible object or action that suggest something further in meaning
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parable
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a brief narrative that teaches a moral
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myth (1)
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traditional stories about the exploits of immortal beings
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myth (2)
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concrete explination for an abstract reality
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myth (3)
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story that may or may not be true, but which people believe
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