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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A story within a story, or a hidden meaning.
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Foil
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A background character that slightly differs yet is slightly similar to the main character.
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Closed Form
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A type of poem where each line in the stanza is similar to the others in length and rhythm and rhyme
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Sonnet
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A poem with 14 lines split into stanzas. The end of each line has a specific syllable.
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Convention
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A part any genre that defines it and makes it that genre.
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Diction
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The words that set a certain tone or mood to describe a character or imply.
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Alliteration
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Backwards rhyming. The repetition of the first syllable.
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Blank Verse
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A line of literature that does not rhyme.
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Characterization
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The many ways that the author implies about a character. For some characterization it implies things that can be seen by people or the way the character thinks.
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Complication
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Intense conflict that builds up to the main conflict in the story.
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Couplet
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A pair of rhyming lines, although they do not have to be in the same stanza.
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Denotation
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The definition found in the dictionary, rather than being simplified or having the meaning interpreted.
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Epic
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A long poem that tells a story, usually of a hero.
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Hyperbole
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A figure of speach. An exaggerated or sarcastic phrase.
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Imagery
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The way an author describes something with detailed adjectives so that the reader can in vision what it may look like.
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that imitate the sound the sound the word describes.
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Recognition
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The part of the story where the situation dawns on the main character. When the main character truly understands the events that have taken place.
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Subplot
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A plot in the story that is minor, but still important. It parallels to the main plot and they help each other continue on.
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Tone
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The mood that the writer sets by HER word choice. It is used to persuade the reader to think a certain way or to portray a character as a good/bad guy.
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Understatement
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A kind of sarcasm , but used rather that exaggerating something into more than it is, an understatement makes something sound less than it really is.
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