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80 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A story illustrating an idea or moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meaning
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Alliteration
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A repition of initial sounds
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Allusion
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a reference in one work alluding to something in another
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Ambiguity
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a statement which can be interpreted in different ways
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Anastrophe
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reversal of the normal order of words
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Antagonist
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person or force opposing protagonist
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Antiphrasis
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use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (bald man called "curly" or tall man called "tiny")
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Apostrophe
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speaker speaks directly to something inanimate
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Assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds
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Atmosphere
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particular environment or surrounding influence
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bildungsroman
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work that catalogues the development of a character from childhood to maturity
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blank verse
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poem written in unrhymed iamib pentameter
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cacophony
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unpleasant combination of sounds (usually consonant)
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caesura
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pause within line
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catalexis
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a line that is metrically incomplete, typically at the end
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conceit
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an elaborate comparison
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connotation
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the meaning of a word carrying emotional, historical, or social implications as well
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consonance
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the repition of consonant sounds
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convention
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accepted norms of any aspect
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counterplot
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series of storylines being continued simultaneously
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couplet
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stanza of two lines, usually rhyming
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denotation
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literal meaning out of dictionary
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diction
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word choice
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doppelganger
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a character is divided into two contrasting characters that represent parts of a whole
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double entendre
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device employing ambiguity to carry a separate (usually sexual) connotation
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endstop
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a logical or rhetorical pause at the end
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enjambment
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meaning carried over two lines
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epic
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retelling of a hero's deeds; long-winded (the Illiad, Odyssey...)
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epiphany
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a sudden and deep understanding or enlightenment
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euphony
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pleasant sounds (typically assonance)
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existentialism
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philosophical movement- stresses that individual must create meaning in meaningless universe
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expressionism
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artistic movement- to portray inner emotional state of creator
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foil
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character that is contrasted to another character by comparison
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format
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physical form of the work (margins, spacing, size)
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free verse
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unrhymed, unrhythmed poetry
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Freytag's Pyramid
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five parts of drama: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement or catastrophe
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Heroic couplet
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a series of syllables as stressed then unstressed
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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iamb
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syllables as unstressed then stressed
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imagery
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kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory, visual, auditory,
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internal monologue
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a character thinking to himself
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internal rhyme
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rhyme within a line
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irony
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Three kinds of irony: verbal- says one thing and means another. dramatic- audience knows and characters don't. situational- ironic conclusion
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leitmotif
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a basic recurring element
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litotes
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inverse hyperbole (tis but a flesh wound)
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lyric
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short poem of songlike quality
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lyricism
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intense personal quality
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metaphor
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comparison without use of "like" or "as"
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metonymy
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an object representing something else (crown for royalty)
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montage
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collage of images to create a whole image of significance
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mood
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atmosphere or feeling created by diction and tone
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motif
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recurring thematic element
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nihilism
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philosophical ideaology- there is no underlying meaning or truth; existence is pointless
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ode
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poem in praise of something
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onomatopoeia
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word that imitates sound it represents
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oxymoron
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jumbo shrimp
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paradox
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oxymoron that reveals a sort of truth: less is more
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parody
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work that mimics and mocks another work
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partial rhyme
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sounds are similar but not identical
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personification
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giving voice to unhuman things
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prose
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normal speech or writing
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pun
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play on words: "i do it for the pun of it"
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refrain/repetend
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repeated lines (chorus in music)
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rhyme scheme
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framework of rhyme pattern
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rhythm
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sequences of stressed and unstressed syllables
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satire
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used to ridicule human vice or weakness commonly with the intent of correcting it
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setting
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time, place, surroundings
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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soliloquy
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character speaks his thoughts aloud to audience
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sonnet
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fourteen lines of fixed rhyme scheme
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spondee
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metrical patterm of two succesive stressed syllables
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stanza
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unified group of lines in a poem
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style
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characteristic qualities of an author or genre
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surrealism
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artistic movement- expression of the unconscious
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symbol
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use of an object to represent more than its literal meaning
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synecdoche
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a part representing a whole (all hands on deck)
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syntax
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specific grammatical arrangement of words
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theme
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general idea conveyed in a work
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tone
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attitude writer encourages on the reader: serious, humorous, excited, suspenseful, melancholy
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understatement
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statement that lessens the importance of what is being said
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