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25 Cards in this Set
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literary style used to make fun of an idea or human vice
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satire
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system for describing more or less conventional poetic rhythms by dividing lines into feet
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scansion
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form of fantasy in which scientific facts are the basic of adventures in the future
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science fiction
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study of meaning and meanings of language
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semantics
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anti-Ciceronian style of 16 century
abrupt and uneven, giving the effect of unadorned factual statement |
senecan style
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tragedies generally marked by conventional 5-act divisions, use of a chorus and stock characters, presentation of action through long themes recited by messengers
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senecan tragedy
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reliance on feelings as guides to the truth and not on reason and law
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sensibility
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overindulgence in emotion, especially in conscious effort to induce emotion in order to enjoy it
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sentimentalism
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time and location of a story
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setting
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14 line poem composed of 3 quatrains followed by rhyming heroic couplet
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Shakespearean sonnet
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motif saying "so passes away the glory of the world"
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Sic transit Gloria mundi
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long speech made by character in a play while is along on stage
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soliloquy
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lyric poem adapted to musical expression
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song
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14 line verse from following one of seeral rhyme schemes...Italian(Petrarchan) and English(Shakespearean)
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sonnet
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stanza of nine iambic lines, first eight in pentameter and ninth in hexameter
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Spenserian stanza
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metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables
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spondee
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accidental interchange of sounds usually the initial consonants
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spoonerism
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coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins: rhythm based on the number of stressed syllables in a line without regard the number of unstressed syllables
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sprung rhythm
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metal duplication of a printing surface which enables the original surface to be exactly duplicated many times
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stereotype
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an attempt on the part of the author to reproduce the unembellished flow of thoughts in the human mind
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stream of consciousness
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movement in Germany: it was a revolt from the conventions and tenets of French classicism. writing was imbued with a strong nationalism and folk element characterized by fervor...
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sturn and drang
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a thing of spirit, spark leaping from writer to reader, rather than a product of technique
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sublime
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anticipation as to the outcome of events, particularly as they affect a character form whom one has sympathy
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suspense
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willingness to withhold questions about truth in a work
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suspension of disbelief
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movement in art emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams presented without conscious control
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surrealism
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