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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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In Animal Farm, the animals rebel against their owners and break off to start their own farm. The author is sort of refering to how in society nowadays, we also start rebellions to change our government, like what is happening in Egypt right now.
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Anapest
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con-tra-DICT
in-ter-UPT get a LIFE |
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Assonance
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I LIE down by the SIDE of my BRIDE.
About the GLADE in a FRAIL agony of GRACE she TRAILED her rags. |
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Aubade
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The Sun Rising
by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains call on us ? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run ? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school-boys, and sour ’prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices ; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. Thy beams, so reverend and strong Why shouldst thou think? I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, But that I would not lose her sight so long If her eyes have not blinded thine, Look, and tomorrow late tell me, Whether both the Indias of spice and mine Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday And thou shalt hear, ‘All here in one bed lay.’ She’s all States, and all Princes I ; Nothing else is. Princes do play us ; compared to this, All honour’s mimic ; all wealth alchemy. Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we, In |
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Ballad
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This is the chorus, which is a repeated refrain in a _________ from The Mermaid.
Three times 'round went our gallant ship, And three times 'round went she, And the third time that she went 'round She sank to the bottom of the sea. |
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Caesura
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Know then thyself , presume not God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man. -An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope This poetic technique is illustrated by the simple comma interrupting line one of the following couplet. |
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Convention
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The fact that Disney fairy tales always have a happy ending is a ______ of the fairy tale genre.
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Couplet
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One of these:
I found a starfish in the bay (a) When I was fishing yesterday (a) Many arms and color bright. (b) Sea stars are a special sight. (b) |
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Denotation
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Mending Wall by Robert Frost
And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. The author is playing with both the connotation and the __________ of the stone wall. |
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Denouement
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The ________ or resolution of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is Pip and Estella's marriage.
How Theseus creates a democracy as the new King of Athens. |
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Elegy
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"______ on His Cat"
I have not lost my rings, my purse, My gold, my gems-my loss is worse, One that the stoutest heart must move. My pet, my joy, my little love, My tiny kitten, my Belaud, I lost, alas, three days ago. - Joachim Du Bellay |
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Enjambment
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You will dine well, my Fabullus, at my house
in a few, if the gods favor you, days, and if you bring with you a good and great dinner, not without a white girl and wine and wit and laughs for all. -Catullus XIII |
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Falling Meter
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DA-ily
YES-ter-day |
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Iamb
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"Come LIVE/ with ME/ and BE/ my LOVE"
(There are four of this poetic device in the above line.) An _______ is the opposite of a trochee |
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Quatrain
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Evening red & morning gray,
Set the traveler on his way, But evening gray & morning red, Bring the rain upon his head. ~Weather Rhyme by an Unknown Author (The pattern is AABB) |
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Satire
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Animal Farm is a ______ - it pokes fun at the Russian Revolution.
The shows the Simpsons and FamilyGuy are ________ of contemporary family life. |
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Sestina
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flower is the thing we smell
give it to a friend with money we can buy and sell many in a number a pen to write ontop the toilet shrine ontop the toilet shrine flower to mask the smell to lable it with pen call a friend had many in the number plentiful money plentiful money surrounds the toilet 50, 100, 500 number flower petals all around! friend i call can you mark my pen? ............. (continues 3 more times, then ends with all the repeating words, two per line) |
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Synecdoche
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears"
-William Shakespeare |
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Trochee
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SOC-cer
SEA-son |
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Understatement
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Saying "It's just a little rain" when the neighborhood is completely flooded
From Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet: When Mercutio is about to die from a mortal wound, he says "Tis but a scratch" before dying. |
