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39 Cards in this Set
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• Alliteration
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o The repetition of the same consonant sound in words that are close to one another
• Baby Blue |
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• Allusion
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o A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is know from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science or popular culture
• The title of “the sound of fury” is an allusion to a line from Macbeth |
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• Aphorism
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o Short witty saying
• “haste makes waste” |
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• Apostrophe
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o When a speaker is directly addressing an absent or dead person, an abstract quality or something non human as if it were present and capable of responding
• Hamlet’s Soliloquy to the skull • |
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Assonance
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o Repetition of the same vowel sound in words that are close to one another
• The grave cave ate |
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• Classicism and neoclassicism
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o A movement in art, literature and music that advocates imitating the principles manifested in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome
o Emphasizes reason, clarity, balance, harmony, restraint, order, and universal themes. • Pride and prejudice |
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• Connotation
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o All the meanings association, or emotions that a word suggests
• Plump as apposed to FAT |
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• Denotation
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o The literal dictionary definition of a word
• A table is a piece of furniture made of wood with four legs |
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• Diction
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o An authors word choice
• Dr. Sues uses childish, imaginative language while Shakespeare uses formal, elaborate language |
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• Epiphany
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o A moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences
• In tess of the d’Urbervilles, when tess realizes that alec has tricked her into believing that angel was never coming back. |
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• Foreshadowing
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o The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot
• Bridge to terabythia |
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• Free verse
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o Poetry that has no regular meter or rhythm scheme
• Mending wall |
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• Hyperbole
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comical over exaggeration
• “ I’m starving” |
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• Iambic pentameter
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o A line of poetry made up of five iambs ( a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables)
• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now |
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• Imagery
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o Language that appeals to the senses
• When tss is at Talbothays Dairy, sensual description of wind and meadow |
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• Irony-situational
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o When what actually happens is the opposite of what should have
• An Olympic swimmer drowning in the bathtub |
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• Irony-verbal
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o When a writer or person says the opposite of what they mean (sarcasm)
• Good going “genius” |
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• Metaphor
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o Comparison of two unlike things using “is” or some form there of
• “and all that day was a fairytale” |
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• Naturalism
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o Outside force influencing/ controlling life, such as nature (individual fate), society, geography, race. Things one has no control over.
• In “grapes of wrath” a drought made the joad’s move to California |
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• Parallelism
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o The repetition of words, phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that restates the same idea
• “ask not what your country can do for you, but what your country can do for you |
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• Personification
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o Where human like- qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas (could also be giving animal-like qualitative to something inanimate)
• The roaring wind |
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• Realism
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o The attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization, the literary and artistic reaction to romanticism
• In huck finn when the author is describing the sunrise, he also mentions the unpleasant smell of fish from the river |
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• Simile
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o A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
• the morning opens like a rose |
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• Soliloquy
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o A monologue in which a character who is usually alone on stage and expresses his/her true feelings or beliefs
• In hamlet, he talks privately to himself about suicide in his “to be or not to be speech” |
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• Symbol
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o A person, place, thing or event that stands for both itself and something other than itself
• Tess bad omen (the location of an execution) |
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• Tone
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o The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
• Hardy has a much more critical tone towards society |
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• Tragedy + tragic flaw
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o A play or novel that comes to an unhappy end, typically through death
o A weakness in an otherwise impressive character • Creon’s tragic flaw was his pride, and it causes his family’s death |
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• Irony-situational
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o When what actually happens is the opposite of what should have
• An Olympic swimmer drowning in the bathtub |
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• Irony-verbal
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o When a writer or person says the opposite of what they mean (sarcasm)
• Good going “genius” |
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• Metaphor
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o Comparison of two unlike things using “is” or some form there of
• “and all that day was a fairytale” |
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• Naturalism
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o Outside force influencing/ controlling life, such as nature (individual fate), society, geography, race. Things one has no control over.
• In “grapes of wrath” a drought made the joad’s move to California |
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• Parallelism
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o The repetition of words, phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that restates the same idea
• “ask not what your country can do for you, but what your country can do for you |
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• Personification
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o Where human like- qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas (could also be giving animal-like qualitative to something inanimate)
• The roaring wind |
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• Realism
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o The attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization, the literary and artistic reaction to romanticism
• In huck finn when the author is describing the sunrise, he also mentions the unpleasant smell of fish from the river |
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• Simile
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o A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
• the morning opens like a rose |
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• Soliloquy
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o A monologue in which a character who is usually alone on stage and expresses his/her true feelings or beliefs
• In hamlet, he talks privately to himself about suicide in his “to be or not to be speech” |
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• Symbol
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o A person, place, thing or event that stands for both itself and something other than itself
• Tess bad omen (the location of an execution) |
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• Tone
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o The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
• Hardy has a much more critical tone towards society |
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• Tragedy + tragic flaw
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o A play or novel that comes to an unhappy end, typically through death
o A weakness in an otherwise impressive character • Creon’s tragic flaw was his pride, and it causes his family’s death |
