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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A story in which characters represent ideas such as good and evil.
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Ballad
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A narrative folk song or poem set to music.
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Blank Verse
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A line in peotry in which ordinary language is in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Closed Form
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Showing consistency in rhyme, line length, and pattern.
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Complication
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When matters become worse for a character in a story or when one problem becomes an even bigger problem.
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Connotation
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The intended meaning of a word according to the writer.
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Denouement
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The final solution in a plot
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Diction
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A selection of words that go according to a certain style of speaking or writing.
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Elegy
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A poem that commemorates someone who is no longer living.
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Epigram
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A brief poem or saying with intellectual meaning.
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Free Verse
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A type of poetry in which words do not rhyme or follow a specific pattern.
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Iamb
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When an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
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Irony
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The opposite of what is expected to happen or when the opposite of what is said is meant.
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Literal Language
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When what is said is exactly what is meant.
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Lyric Poem
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A poem demonstrating feelings or emotion.
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Ode
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A poem showing the appreciation of someone or something.
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Reversal
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A point in a story in which things go according to the protagonist.
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Sonnet
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A poem which is in iambic pantameter and composed of fourteen lines.
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Subplot
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The secondary adventure or plot in a story.
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Syntax
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The organization of words into sentences.
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