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10 Cards in this Set
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Literal Language
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Language that states facts or ideas directly. Means exactly what is stated.
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Literary Periods
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Basically, the period concept suggests two things: 1. Literary works can be grouped according to what they share with each other within a given time span. 2. that this grouping can be differentiated from other such chronological groupings.
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Malapropism
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The substitution of an incorrect word for a word with a similar sound. (Old-timer's Disease vs. Alzheimer's Disease)
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Meta-narrative
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An abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience of knowledge.
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Metaphor
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A comparison made between two things that are basically dissimilar, with the intent of giving added meaning to on of them.
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Extended Metaphor
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A metaphor that is extended throughout a poem.
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Dead Metaphor
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A metaphor, which has become so commonplace that it has lost its force, and we forget that it is not literally true.
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Mixed Metaphor
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use of two or more inconsistent metaphors in one expression.
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Meter
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The regular pattern of rhythm-this is, of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse.
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Metrical Foot
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Usually consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables.
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