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49 Cards in this Set
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Speaker
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Voice that speaks
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Lyric Peom
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Expresses a speaker's emotions of thoughts
-does not tell a story -conveys a single stong emotion |
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Free Verse
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Poetry that deosn't have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
-Captures the natural rhythms of ordinary speech |
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Haiku
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3 line peom with 17 syllables (Line 1 - 5, Line 2- 7, Line 3-5)
-Contrasts images of daily life |
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Sonnet
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14 line peom with a regular phyme scheme
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Ballad
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A song that tells a story by using steady rhythms, strong phymes, and repitition
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Epic
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A long narritive poem telling the adventures of heroes that embodied the values of their civilizations
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Imagery
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A word of phrase that appeals to one or more the senses
-Helps imagine a sound, odor, texture, taste, or color/motion |
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Simile
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Comparing two things using like or as
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Metaphor
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Comparing two things without using comparison words
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Personification
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A type of metaphor in which an inhuman thing is given inhuman qualities
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Hyperbole
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A large exaggeration
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Paradox
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An apparent contradiction that is actually true
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Onomatopoeia
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using words that sound like what they mean
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Alliteration
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Repeating the same sonsonant sound in several words
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Assonance
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Repeating the same vowel sound in several words
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Character
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A person or thing in the story
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Foil
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A character used to contrast another character
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Protagonist
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Leading character
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Antagonist
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Causes the conflict, rival
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Speaker
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Voice that speaks
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Theme
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Main idea
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Tone
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Attutude that the writer has
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Mood
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Atmosphere or feeling that the tone evokes
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Foreshadowing
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When a writer plants clues in the text to hint at events that occur later in the plot
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Diction
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use of certain words and phrases in speech
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Symbols
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An object, event, person, or animal that stands for both itself and something else
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Tragedy
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A presentation of serious and importat actions that end unhappily
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Soliloque
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A speech by a character alone on stage who is speaking to themselves or the audience
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Monologue
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A long speech by one character to one or more characters on stage
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Aside
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A comment only the audience is supposed to hear
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Denotation
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The translation of a sign to its literal meaning
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Connotation
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A commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries
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Dialect
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A type of language that is spoken in a particular region/area
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Irony
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The use of words that mean the opposite of twhat they say
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Analogy
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The comparison of two things based on their similarities
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Pun
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A form of word play that suggests the word has two meanings
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Satire
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A way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish/weak/bad
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Idiom
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Expressions that aren't meant to be taken seriously
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Apostrophe
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A punctuation mark
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Phyme
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A perition of a stressed vowel sound
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Phyme scheme
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Regular pattern of end rhymes
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Rhythm
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musical quality based on repitition
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Refrain
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A verse or phrase repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem
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Meter
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A form of rhythm with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem
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Blank verse
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Poetry writeen in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Iambic pentameter
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rhythm of pairing 10 syllables for each line into 5 pairs
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Couplet
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A pair of lines of meter in poetry
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Stanza
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A grouped set of lines with a poem
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