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26 Cards in this Set
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Anecdote
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A short narrative about an interesting/biographical incident.
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Legend
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A story about the past, considered historical but not verifiable.
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Allegory
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Story that teaches a lesson through symbolism.
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Ballad
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Narrative poem meant to be sung or recited.
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Sonnet
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Lyric poem of 14 lines, often in iambic pentameter.
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Elegy
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Moumful or melancholy poem, often for the dead.
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Ode
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Lengthy lyric poem with complex stanzas, often praising someone.
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Editorial
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Opinion piece
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Informative/explanatory essay
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Literary piece that informs or explains.
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Analytical essay
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literary piece that analyzes.
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Apostrophe
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Someone absent/dead/nonhuman is addressed as if presentl.
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Paradox
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A statement that seems to contradict but is actually true.
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Dialogue
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Written conversation between characters.
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Soliloquy
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In drama, a speech where character says thoughts aloud while alone.
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Verse
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Metrical language; the opposite of prose.
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Stanza forms
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Couplet-a pair of rhymed lines.
Quatrain-a four-line stanza, often marked by its rhyme scheme. Sestet-a six-line stanza Octet(octabe)-an eight-line stanza. |
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Connotation
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A word's overtones of meaning.
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Denotation
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A word's literal meaning.
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Rhetorical question
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question that does not require reply; used for persuasion.
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Cliche
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expression/idea that is so overused that it has lost meaning or effect.
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Irony & 3 types.
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Dramatic,situational, verbal.
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dialect
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form of language as spoken in a particular region or by a particular people.
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pun
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a joke created by a play on words, often using a word's multiple meanings.
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character analysis
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direct characterization
indirect characterization dynamic/static character round/flat character |
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caricature
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a description of a person that over-exaggerates or over-simplifies some characteristics.
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monologue
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in drama, an extended uninterrupted speech by a character.
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