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21 Cards in this Set
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Myth
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produced by every early culture around the world as a means of explaining natural phenomena
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Tall tale
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highly exaggerated, unrealistic, humorous stories
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Legend
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a tradition or story handed down from earlier times and popularly accepted as true but actually a mix of fact and fiction
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Oral traditions
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the passing of stories, poems, songs by word of mouth
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Spiritual
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sung form of literature came specifically from the African-American fold tradition
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Allegory
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a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor
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Meter
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a poem’s rhythmical pattern
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Iamb
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A kind of metrical foot. An iamb (the adjective is "iambic") is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
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Stanza
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A group of lines forming a unit in a poem
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Quatrain
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Usually a stanza or poem of four lines
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Couplet
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Poetry
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Traditional poetry is language arranged in lines, with a regular rhythm and often a definite rhyme scheme
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Fiction
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Anything that is invented or imagined, especially a prose narrative
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Drama
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A story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters
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Nonfiction
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Any prose narrative that tells about things as they actually happened or that posses factual information about something
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Chronological order
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most closely associated with narration
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Spatial order
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A method of description that begins at one geographical point and moves onward in an orderly fashion
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Classification order
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places objects into categories according to their properties or characteristics
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Comparison/contrast
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explores the similarities and differences between two subjects
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Analysis
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breaks something into parts and examines how parts are related
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Process
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gives directions on how to do something
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