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77 Cards in this Set
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abstract word
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word used to discuss intangible qualities (good, evil, love, hate)
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absurdist era
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a movement that responded to the seeming illogicality and purposelessness of human life
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accent
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stressed portion of a word in poetry
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ad hominem argument
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argument that appeals to emotion, rather than reason
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aesthetic
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appealing to the senses
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aleatory
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an alogical poem that seems composed by chance
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allegory
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a story in which each aspect has symbolic meaning outside of the story
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
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allusion
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reference to a famous work or figure outside the poem
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amplification
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repeating a word and adding a different modifier each time
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anachronism
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an object misplaced in time
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anacoluthon
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finishing a sentance with different grammatical structure from that with which it began
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analogy
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a comparison involving two or more symbolic parts employed to clarify an action or relationship
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anapestic
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metrical measurements of two unstressed syllables and one stressed
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anaphora
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repetition of the same words at the beginning of successive sentences
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anecdote
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a short story
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antagonist
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one that contends with or opposes another
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antecedent
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a word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to
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anthropomorphism
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when inanimate objects are given human characteristics, but no human shape
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anticlimax
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an action that produces a far smaller result than one had expected
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antihero
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a protagonist who is markedly unheroic
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antimetabole
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reversing the words/order to intensify the sentence, present alternatives, or show contrast
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antiphrasis
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one word irony
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antistrophe
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repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive lines
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antithesis
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juxtaposition of opposites
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aphorism
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a short and witty saying
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apocopated rhyme
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a cut-off rhyme, last syllable of one of the rhymes is missing
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apologia
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a defense of one's opinions, actions, or life
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apologue
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a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson
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aporia
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expression of doubt about conclusions
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aposiopesis
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stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished
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apostrophe
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speech is directed to a nonhuman object or one that is not present
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Apollonian
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refers to the noble qualities of human beings and nature as opposed to the savage and destructive forces
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appositive
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a noun or phrase placed next to another noun for the purpose of further describing
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archaism
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use of deliberately old-fashioned diction
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archetype
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the original pattern or model of which all things of a similar nature are copies
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ars poetica
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a poem written on the subject of poetic art
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aside
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a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside the action onstage
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assonance
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the repeated use of internal vowel sounds
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asyndterm
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a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related words, phrases, clauses
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atmosphere
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the emotional tone or backround that surrounds a scene
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aubade
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a love song or poem greeting the dawn
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ballad
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a long narrative poem in regular meter and rhyme
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bathos
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writing that strains for grandeur it can't support
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Beat Generation Era
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a group of American writers in the 1950s and 60s who sought release and illumination through bohemian counterculture of sex, drugs, and Zen Buddhism
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Belles-Lettres
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body of literature which is inherently artistic, as opposed to scientific writing
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bildungsroman
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a novel of self-development or personal formation
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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bombast
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pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language
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burlesque
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broad parody that takes a specific style and make sfun of it
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cacophony
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using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds
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cadence
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the beat or rhythm of poetry
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caesura
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a pause in a line of poetry (indicated or not)
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camera eye narrator
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third-person narrator who describes what would be visible to a camera, objective
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canto
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a section division in a long work of poetry
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caricature
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a portrait that exaggerates a facet of a personality
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carpe diem
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the enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future
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catalogue
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a complete enumeration of items, arranged systematically, with descriptive details
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catharsis
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cleansing of emotion
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Chaucerian stanza
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7-line, rhyme of ababbcc, also called rime royal
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chorus
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the group of citizens that stands outside the main action on stage and comments on it
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chiasmas
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a type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first
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climax
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the point of highest tension
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coinage
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a new word, usually invented on the spot
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colloquialism
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a word or phrase one uses everyday in conversational english
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conceit
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an extended metaphor, developed and expanded upon over several lines
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concrete poetry
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a type of visual poetry
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connotation
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the association with a word
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds within words
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continuous form
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a poem in which lines follow each other without stanza breaks
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couplet
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a pair of lines ending in a rhyme
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dactylic
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a meterical measurement of one accented syllable and two unaccented
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decorum
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the attitude one should display according to his/her social status
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denotation
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a word's literal meaning
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denoument
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events that follow the climax
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deus ex machina
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an artificial or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot
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diacope
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repetition of words before and after syntactical breaks
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