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29 Cards in this Set
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a short wise saying observing a general truth about life
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aphorism
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a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work
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allusion
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a brief amuzing story
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anecdote
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when the speaker directly addresses an absent person
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apostrophe
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one who does not chance in the course of a story
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static character
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one who does change in the course of a story
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dynamic character
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a writers choice of words
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diction
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arrangement of words in a sentence, sentence structure
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syntax
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a type of classification of literature
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genre
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the use of primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious elements in literature
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gothic
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descriptive language using the 5 senses to create a picture in words
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imagery
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contrast between what is stated and what is meant
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irony
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figure of speech, comparision between two unlike things
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metaphor
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a poems rhythical pattern determined by stresses and beats in each line
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`metere
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a narrator that is all knowing
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omniscient
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knows only what one person does
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limited narrator
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repetition of grammatical structure
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parallelism
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writing that attempts to convince reader to think or act a certain way
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persuasion
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type of wrting used by puritans in which umcomplicated and ordinary words are used to make simple direct statements
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plain style
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regular pattern of rhyming words in poem ABAB
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rhyme scheme
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19th century litary movement
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romaticism
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group of lines in a poem
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stanza
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authors way of writing
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style
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intuition and individual conscience
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transcendentalism
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fictional tale
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myth
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central message or insight
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theme
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feeling created in reader
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mood
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5 line stanza in poetry
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cinquain
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a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet
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iambic pentameter
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