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60 Cards in this Set
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Adventure Novel
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exciting events predominate the characterization and sometimes the theme of a novel.
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Allegory
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Extended Metaphor
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Allusion
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Brief reference to a person/place/event
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Anaphora
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Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines.
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Apostrophe
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direct address
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds.
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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Natural pause or break
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Anadiplosis
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repeating the last word of one phrase/clause/sentence
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Amplification
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Use of bare/blunt expressions
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Anastrophe
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Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words
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Antimetabole
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reversal in the order of repeated words/phrases
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Anthropomorphism
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Attributing human forms to gods/goddesses
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Aphorism
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Brief statement in concise words with a moral
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Burlesque
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work designed to ridicule a style or form
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Biblomacy
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making predictions based on bible verses
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Cacophony
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Harsh, discordant sounds
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Chiasmus
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Type of rhetoric where two parts are syntactically balanced against each other
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Conceit
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Elaborate Comparison
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Circumlocation
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Saying something in many words when it could be said in less words
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Diacope
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Repetition of a word/phrase after an intervening word/phrase.
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Deus Ex Machina
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Introducing a character at the end of the novel to wrap up loose ends. Often a negative term.
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End-stopped
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a line that has a natural pause at the end
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Epistrophe
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Repetition of the same word/words at the end of successive phrases.
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Epithet
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Adjective and a noun, naming a key characteristic of the noun
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Epizeuxis
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Repetition of a word for emphasis
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Euphony
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Soothing pleasant sounds
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Foot
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basic unit of meter. group of 2 or 3 syllables
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Frame
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narrative structure that provides setting and exposition
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Free Verse
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Neither regular rhyme or meter
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Heroic Couplet
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two lines of rhymed iambic pentameter
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Faulty Parallelism
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when elements put into pairs and series go in different directions because they don't have the same form
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Juxtaposition
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One theme is paralleled to another
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Kenning
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poetic phrase substituted for a usual name
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for Effect
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Invective
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Speech writing that abuses
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Lampoon
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Crude, Coarse, bitter satire related to a persons appearance.
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Metaphysical poetry
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revolts against conventions
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Meter
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Rhythmic pattern
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Malapropism
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act/habit of misusing words ridiculously
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Metonymy
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Substituting word for another word closely related to it
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Motif
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reoccurring thematic element
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Parody
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satiric imitation of a work/author
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Persona
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Person created by the author to tell a story
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Pulp Fiction
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Novels written for the mass market
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Ridicule
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words intended to belittle
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Romance
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improbable events, characters aren't ordinary
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Satire
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Critical attitude mixed with wit and humor
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Sonnet
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14 line poem, usually iambic pentameter, varied rhyme scheme
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Style
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manner of expression
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Subplot
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minor collection of events
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Periphrasis
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adding extra words to extend the message you're trying to give
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Polysyndeton
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Repetition of connectives/conjunctions
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Portmanteau
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combination of two or more words to create a new word
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Synecdoche
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when one uses a part to represent the whole
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Synthesia
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the conflation of the senses
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Tone
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writer's attitude towards the reader or the subject
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Travesty
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work that treats a serious subject frivilously
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Versification
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Structural form of a verse
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Versimilitude
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the appearance of truth
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