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13 Cards in this Set
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Anecdote
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Short narrative about an interesting/biographical incident
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Elegy
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Mournful or melancholy poem, often for the dead
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Sonnet
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Lyric poem of 14 lines, often in iambic pentameter
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Apostrophe
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Somone absent/ded/nonhuman is adressed as if it is present
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Verse
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Metrical language the opposite of prose
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pun
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Joke created by a play on words, often using a word's multiple meanings
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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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Aside
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character expresses thoughts aloud that are not meant to be heard by some characters on stage
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Couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines
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Quatrain
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A four-line stanza, often marked by its rhyme scheme
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Seset
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six-line stanza
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Octet (Octave)
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an eight-line stanza
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understatement
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creates emphasis by saying less than is true
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