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58 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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narrative containing a fixed number of symbols
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Allusion
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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history
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Apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead is addressed as if it were alive
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Connotation
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what a word suggests beyond its dictionary meaning
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Denotation
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dictionary meaning of a word
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Figurative Language
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language that cannot be taken literaly
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Hyperbole (overstatement)
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a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
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Imagery
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the representation through language of sense experience
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Irony
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a situation involving some kind of discrepency
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Verbal Irony
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a figure of which the meaning is the opposite of what was said
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Dramatic Irony
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the author implies a different meaning than the speaker
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Situational Irony
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a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that come to pass
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Metaphor
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figure of speech where an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things
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Metonymy
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figure of speech were some significant aspect is used to represent the whole
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Paradox
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a statement containing apparently contradictory elements
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Personification
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when human attributes are given to a non-living object
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Simile
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when a comparison is made using "like or as"
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Symbol
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figure of speech that means more than what is said
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Theme
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central idea of a literary work
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Tone
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writers/speakers attitude towards the subject
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Understatement (litotes)
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say less than what has really happened
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End-Stopped Line
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a line that ends with a natural speech pause
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Run-On Line
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line with no natural speech pause at the end
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Anaphora
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repetition of a n opening word or phrase in a series of lines
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Stanza
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a group of lines with a repeated metrical pattern
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Couplet
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two rhyming lines that follow each other
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Tercet
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three line stanza
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Quatrain
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1) four line stanza
2) four line division of a Sonnet marked off by rhyme schemes |
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Sestet
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1) six line stanza
2) last six lines of a sonnet |
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Octave
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1) 8 line stanza
2) first 8 lines of a sonnet |
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Refrain
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a repeated word, phrase, or line (chorus)
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Aubade (Dawn Poem)
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morning love poem
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Sonnet
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fixed form of 14 lines, usually iambic pentameter
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Villanelle
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19 line fixed poem with five tercets rhyyming "ABA"
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Ballad
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short narrative poem
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Folk Ballad
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ballad designed to be sung
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Dramatic Poem
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expresses the theme
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Alliteration
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repetition of consonant sounds
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
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Caesura
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speech pause occurring within a line
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Consonance
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repetition of final consonant sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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words that sound like what they mean
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Rhyme
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repetition of an accented vowel sound
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Rhyme Scheme
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a fixed pattern of rhymes
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Approximate Rhyme
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words without a perfect rhyme
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Meter
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regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse
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Foot
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basic measurement used in measuring metrical verse
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Scansion
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process of measuring metrical verse
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Perfect Rhyme
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rhyme where the final accented vowels are identical
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End Rhyme
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rhymes that occur at the end of the lines
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Internal Rhyme
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rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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Dactyl
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a metrical foot with one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
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Anapest
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two short syllables followed by one long one
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Iamb
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an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
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Trochee
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stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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Spondee
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two long or stressed syllables
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Blank Verse
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un-rhymed verse, usually of iambic pentameter
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Free Verse
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un-rhymed lines with no fixed metrical pattern
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