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44 Cards in this Set
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Amoeban
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dialogue, one person exchanges remarks with another
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anaphora
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repitition of a word or phrase for emphasis, heightens emotional intensity and writing level
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antithesis
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striking contrast of ideas brought face to face, "I love and I hate":oxymoron
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Apostrophe
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"turning away" from one audience to another that is dead, absent, or inanimate, at times in mock tragic effect
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Asyndeton
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ommision of conjunctions for rhetorical effect, "veni, vidi, vici". "amant amantur". can introduce contrast, speed and economy add to effects of striking beauty
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Caesura
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pausing of a metrical foot in midline by end of a word
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catalogue
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poetic list
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Chiasmus
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ABBA word order
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Conceit
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elaborate or far-fetched idea, sometimes for humor
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Diaresis
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matching end of a word with end of a metrical foot. -pauses line
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Diminutive
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any word with lus suffic- affection and heightens sense of informal intamacy, also can exhibit contempt or pity
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Double Dative
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dative of personal reference with dative of purpose or result, as an idiom
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Ecphrasis
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digression in a larger story to describe a picture or artifact- poem 64
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Ellipsis
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ommision of a word that can be understoofd from contezt
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Enjambment
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running of a phrase from one verse to the next, especially when words are closely connected. Puts emphasis on word at beginning of next line
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Epic Simile
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extended comparison- Homeric Simile, poem 64
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Gnomic Perfect
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generalizing use of perfect tense, what was true in the past is always so
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Golden Line
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dactylic hexameter line
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Hapax Legomenon
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a word used only once in the literature, coined by poet, creates rarity
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Hellenistic
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Mediteranean Civilization- philosophy, science, and math, arts, architecture, and city planning
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Hendiadys
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single thought through 2 independent words joined by a conjunction "nice and warm" "new and discovered"
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Hetaera
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courtesan from Asia Minor, made famous in Greece
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Hiatus
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metrical "yawning", normally alided, but not, mock tragic effect "o factum male-o miselle passer"
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Hyperbaton
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separation of words that naturally go together,more formal, raises prose to poetry, 61 and 64
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Hypermetry
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elision of a syllable at end of line with beginning of next- 11, 22, 34
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Iambic Shortening
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colloquial shortening of iambic disyllable to two short syllables
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iambics
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poems or verses of abuse, also hendecasyllabics for catullus
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litotes
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double negative
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lyric
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associated with song and the lyre- praise and publicity
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Meiosis
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understatementto make something greater by making light of it
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Metonymy
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one thing is substituted by a thing associated with it
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Oxymoron
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paradox arrestingly expressed by juxtaposition of opposite words
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Paraprosdokia
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surprise where we expect a different word than we get, often used with enjambment
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parataxis
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juxtaposition of words without logical conjunctions, opposite of hypotaxis
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periphrasis
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longer indirect way of saying something, flourished
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Persona
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mask that an orator assumes to project a suitable image of himself- poor- cobwebs and broken footed couch
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Pleonasm
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redundancy for emphasis contrast double negatives
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Resolution
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use of two short syllables where meter usually calls for one long
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Strophe
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stanza of lyric poetry, two or three repeated lines and a closing shorter line
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Substitution
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two short with a long, dactyle with a spondee, opposite is resolution
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Syncope
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abbreviation of a word for meter
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Synizesis
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sollapsing of two vowels into one for meter, like elisions but in a single word
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Topos
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theme or type of piece, generally known to audience
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Zeugma
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joining of dissimmilar words in one construction
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