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34 Cards in this Set
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the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning.
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parallelism.
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the humorous imitation of a work of lit, art, or music.
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parody.
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the quality in a work of lit that arouses a feeling of pity or compassion in the reader.
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pathos.
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a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
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personification.
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the vantage point from which a narrative is told.
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point of view.
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the central character of a drama, novel, or short story, or narrative poem.
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protagonist.
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the use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time, or the use of two different words or phrases that sound alike.
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pun.
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usually a stanza or poem of four lines.
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quatrain.
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the attempt in lit and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or idealizing it.
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realism.
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a work, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza.
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refrain.
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a prayer, poem, or song for the repose of the dead.
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requiem.
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the art of using language for persuasion.
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rhetoric.
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the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.
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rhyme.
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the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.
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rhythm.
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a movement that flourished in lit, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt aganist classicism.
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Romanticism.
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a kind of writing that holds us to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses of wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
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satire.
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the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
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scansion.
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a six-line poem of stanza.
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sestet.
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a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparision, such as "like," "as," "than," or "resembles."
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simile.
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an autobio account written by a former slave.
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slave narrative.
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an extended speech, usually in drama, delivered by a character alone onstage.
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soliloquy.
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a lyric poem of 14 lines, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.
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sonnet.
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a folk song, usually on a religious matter.
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spiritual.
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a unit of a poem that is longer than a single line.
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stanza.
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the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.
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stream of consciousness.
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a writer's characteristic way of writing, determined by the choice of words, the arrangement of words in sentences, and the relationship of the sentences to one another.
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style.
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any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.
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symbol.
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a figure of speech in which part of a thing is used to stand for or suggest the whole.
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synecdoche.
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the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to convey in a lit work.
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theme.
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a philosophy which holds that basic truths can be reached through intuition rather that through reason.
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transcendentalism.
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a poetic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
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trochee.
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a restrained statement in which less is said that what is meant.
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understatement.
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a type of novel which arose from the techonological revolution preceding WWI, depiciting a perfect future society achieved through science.
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utopian novel.
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the everyday spoken language of people in a particular locality.
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vernacular.
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