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32 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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When characters or event symbolize ideas/concepts in literature
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Blanche DuBouis in A Streetcar Named Desire represents the past
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence
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Try to light the fire
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Ballad
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A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas
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The anonymous poem "Barbara Allan"
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Caesura
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A strong pause within a line of a verse
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Off-hand-like--just as I--
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Connotation
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An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning
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Home: refuge, resting place, even boring or predictable habitation
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Couplet
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Two successive rhyming lines
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"Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,/Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope."
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Dactyl
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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
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BLUE-ber-ry
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Denouement
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The resolution of the plot of a literary work
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Peeta and Katniss have won the 74th Hunger Games, and they get to go back to their home in District 12 in Hunger Games.
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Denotation
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The literal/dictionary meaning of a word
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Home: residence or fixed dwelling place
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Elegy
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A lyric poem that laments the dead
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"In Memory of William Butler Yeats" by W.H. Auden
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Enjambment
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A line having no end punctuation and running on to the next line
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Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now... |
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Foil
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A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a story
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Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes. He makes Sherlock seem very brilliant and eccentric.
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Foot
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A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Iambic, dactylic
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Hyperbole
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A figure of speech involving exaggeration
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I’ve told you a million times
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Iamb
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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
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pre-DICT
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Irony
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A contrast between what is said and what is meant
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situational, dramatic
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech where a closely related term is substituted for an object/idea
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The White House - in place of the President or others who work there
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
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bloop, splash, buzz
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Pyrrhic
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A metrical unit with two unstressed syllables
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"of the"
"in the" "on a" "son of" |
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Quatrain
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A four-line stanza in a poem
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Resolution
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The sorting out/unraveling of a plot at the end of a story
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Rhyme
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The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words
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crown, town
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Rhythm
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The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse
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Spondee
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A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables
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FAITH-FUL
HEART-BREAK |
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Stanza
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A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar patterns or rhyme and meter
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole
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The word "wheels" refers to a vehicle
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Syntax
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The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse
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The clever young girl adeptly tripped the burglar in the hallway before he could turn on the light.
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Tone
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The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
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Trochee
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An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
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HAP-py
HAM-mer |
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Situational Irony
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The outcome of a certain situation is completely different than what was initially expected.
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A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
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Dramatic Irony
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There is miscommunication in a book, play or film and the audience is smarter than the characters.
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In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged state and he thinks she is dead. He kills himself. When Juliet wakes up she finds Romeo dead and kills herself.
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