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30 Cards in this Set
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personification
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a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept
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metonymy
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a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. Also the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant
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overstatement
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a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
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sarcasm
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bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed.
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total meaning
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the total experience communicated by a poem. it includes all those dimensions of experience by which a poem communicates- sensuous, emotional, imaginative, and intellectual- and it can be communcated in no other words than those of the poem itself.
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apostrophe
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figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
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allegory
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a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one.
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understatement
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a firgure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants
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allusion
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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
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prose meaning
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that part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase.
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synecdoche
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a firgure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. classified under metonymy
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paradox
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a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements
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satire
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a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice.
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tone
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the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work
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alliteration
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the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
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assonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words
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rhyme
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the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words
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euphony
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a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds
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carpe diem
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Used as an admonition to seize the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future
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conceit
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an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature
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end rhyme
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rimes that occur at the end of lines
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end-stopped line
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a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation
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feminine rhyme
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a rime in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved
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masculine rhyme
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a rime in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved
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fantasy
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a kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality
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symbol
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something that means mroe than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings as well, a figure of speech which may be read both literally and figuratively
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sentimentality
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unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a story that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplificationor falsification of reality
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simile
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a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. the comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems
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denotation
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the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
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irony
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a situation or a use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
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