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31 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
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Ambivalence
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Uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things
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Antagonist
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A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary
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Aside
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A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience
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Bawdy
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Inappropriate writing
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Comic Relief
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Comedy used to break tension in dramas
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Denouement
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The final resolution of the intricacies of a plot
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Digression
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A passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing
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Elegy
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A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead
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Epic
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Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style
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Equivocation
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The use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication
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Fabliaux
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A short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France
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Foil Character
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A character that serves the purpose of making another characters traits or ideas more apparent
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Foreshadowing
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To show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
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Frame Story
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A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
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Hyperbole
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Obvious and intentional exaggeration
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Inference
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The process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises
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Irony
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The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
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Mood
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A state or quality of feeling at a particular time
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Parable
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A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson
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Paradox
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A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
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Plot
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A secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose
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Prologue
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A preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel
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Protagonist
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The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
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Romance
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A novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits, etc., usually in a historical or imaginary setting
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Soliloquy
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An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present
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Stanza
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An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
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Technical Climax
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The main turning point in the narrative
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Terza Rima
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An Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet
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Theme
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A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic
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Tragedy
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A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction
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