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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Consonant sounds being repeated, mostly at beginning of a word
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Allegory
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A narrative with a lot of meaning under the surface. Usually characters stand for moral qualities in the story
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Blank Verse
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line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Tone
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Attitude, emotion conveyed toward subject and characters
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Style
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Authors choice of words, structure of words in sentences lines, dialogue. Helps with description, imagery, and other literary techniques
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Free Verse
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Poetry with no set structure. No regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
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Irony
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Difference between what is meant, said, between what happens, expected to happen. Verbal Irony opposite of what character means. irony of curcumstance opposite of what is expected takes place
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Ode
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long stately poem in stanzas of different length, meter and structure
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Onomatopoeia
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word used to imitate sounds they desribe
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Hyperbole
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figure of speech which contains exaggeration
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Characterization
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writers present and show charcter. Use speech, dress, manner, and actions
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Octave
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eight line unit which can make a stanza. or part of poem
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Complication
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intensification of conflict in story or play. builds up, accumulates, makes primary or central conflict in literary work
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literal language
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writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote
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Recognition
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character comes to senses and understands his or her situation as it really is
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understatement
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figure of speech in which a witer or speaker says less than what he or she means. UNDER exaggeration
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Dactyl
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stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
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Epigram
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brief witty poem
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falling meter
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poetry meter that move from stressed to an unstressed syllable
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Convention
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customary feature of literary work
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