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20 Cards in this Set
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denotation
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literal definition of a word
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didactic
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teaching or instrucing
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digession
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passage hat deviates fromhe central theme
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dramatic irony
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the audience knows something the character dosen't
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elegy
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a forman poem meditating on death or another solemn theme
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end stopped
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a line of poetrytha stops when the grammatical unt ends
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enjambment
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poetr in which the sense and grammatical construction continue
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epigram
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a pithy saying
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epithet
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a phrase or word used to point out a characteristic
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euphemism
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a term used to replace directness of a statement to avoid offense
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euphony
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pleasant sounding voiced consonants
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heroic couplet
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iambic pentameter lines in rhymed pairs
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hexameter
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6 lines of verse
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which one says more than he means
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iamb
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foot of 2 syllables
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inconguity
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linking of 2 incompatible things
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literary present tense
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used when writing about imaginative lit
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epiphany
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realization
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jargon
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gibberish
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line length
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terms for different line lengths, with a numerical prefix
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