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15 Cards in this Set
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analogy
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similarity between two things
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allegory
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narrative or description has a second, deeper meaning beneath the surface
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enjambment
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running on of thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next w/o break
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antithesis
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the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.”
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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epithet
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any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality
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euphonism
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an agreeable combination of sounds; euphony
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heroic couplet
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a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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hyperbole
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extreme exaggeration
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invective
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an insulting or abusive word or expression
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persona
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narrator in literary piece
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scansion
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meterical analysis of verse (' and -)
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verisimilitude
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The quality of appearing to be true or real
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Shakespearean sonnet
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abab, cdcd, efef, gg
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Petrarchan sonnet
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Italian sonnet...?
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