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17 Cards in this Set
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Tone
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the attitude a writer takes towards the reader, a subject, or a character
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irony
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achieved through indirection, sometimes understatement
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synecdoche
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a part used for the whole
-Keel used for ship -Iron used for sword |
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conceit
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an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature
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Satire
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Painting a bad portrait to ridicule
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Zeugma
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the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way
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antithesis
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opposition; contrast
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Heroic couplet
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a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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typically unrymed iambic pentameter but not always. "little lamb little lamb who made the?"
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lyric
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ode or sonnet, express personal feeling. may or may not be put to music
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apostrophe
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speaking to inaminate object
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shakespearian sonnet
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sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
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Petrarchan sonnet
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a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba
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Paradox
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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
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personification
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the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions
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symbolism
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symbolic meaning or character
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foreshadowing
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to show or indicate beforehand
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