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33 Cards in this Set
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the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information.
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exposition.
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language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense.
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figurative language.
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a scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative poem, or a play that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier.
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flashback.
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a unit used to measure the meter of a line of poetry.
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foot.
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the use of hints or clues in a narrativeto suggest what action is to come.
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foreshadowing.
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a narrative that contains another narrative.
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frame story.
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unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern.
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free verse.
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a term that describes the use in fiction of grotesque, gloomy setting and mysterious, violent, and supernatural occurrences to create suspense and awe.
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Gothic.
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a japanese verse form consisting of 3 lines and 17 syllables.
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haiku.
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a flowering of black writing, art, and music in the 1920s.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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a figure of speech using exaggeration for special effect.
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hyperbole.
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a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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iamb.
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the most common verse line in english and american poetry; it consist of 5 feet, with each foot an iamb.
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iambic pentameter.
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words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind.
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imagery.
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a movement in america and english poetry begun in 1912 by the american poet ezra pound; uses direct concentration on the precise image.
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Imagism.
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a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
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irony.
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the writer or speaker says one things but means another.
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verbal irony.
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the reader or audience perceives something that a chatacter in the story or play doesn't know.
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dramatic irony.
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the writer shows discrepancy between the expected result of some action or situation and its actual result.
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irony of situation.
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the use of specific details describing dialect, dress, customs, and scenery associated with a particular region or section of the country.
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local color.
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a poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings.
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lyric.
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar.
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metaphor.
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a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
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meter.
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a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself.
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metonymy.
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the prevailing feeling or emotion climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part, through descriptions of setting.
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mood.
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a recurring feature (such as a name, an image, or a phrase) in a work of literature.
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motif.
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a poem that tells a story.
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narrative poem.
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an extreme form of realism in which the character is controlled by his heredity or enviornment.
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Naturalism.
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an eight-line poem or stanza.
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octave.
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a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject.
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ode.
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the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.
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onomatopoeia.
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a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms, as in "sweet sorrow," "wise fool," "living death," and "honest thieft."
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oxymoron.
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a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue.
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paradox.
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