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23 Cards in this Set
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In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality
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Irony
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A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture
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Allusion
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contains 8 lines ask a question or pose a problem the last six lines respond to the question
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Italian Sonnet
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The pattern of rhymes in a poem
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rhyme scheme
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3 four line quatrains and it concludes with a couplet
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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A pause or break within a line of poetry
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caesura
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a rhyming sound that is not exact
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slant rhyme
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a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using like or as
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simile
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A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect
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Hyperbole
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The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it,or the audience
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tone
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the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience
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Imagery
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the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
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Onomatopoeia
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the way a work makes a reader feel
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mood
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a line or phrase repeated in a line of poetry
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repetition
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A story or poem in which characters,settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
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Allegory
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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like and as
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metaphor
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together
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assonance
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A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change
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satire
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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meter
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry or within consecutive lines
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Internal rhyme
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character type that continually reappears in literature
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archetype
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an address to someone not living or to an inanimate object
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apostrophe
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the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
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alliteration
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