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20 Cards in this Set
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allegory
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a story within a story
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ballad
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A narrative poem, intended to be sung
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blank verse
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A iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme in a line of a poem
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climax
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the high point of a story
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convention
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feature of literary
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couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines
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elegy
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a lyrical poem that griefs of the dead
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elision
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to leave out of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line in poetry
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exposition
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the first stage a book that has fictional or dramatic plot
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foil
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a character that contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech that is exaggerated
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metonymy
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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is switched for another with which it is closely associated
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onomatopoeia
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use of words like buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds they describe
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parody
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mocking imitation of a literary work
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protagonist
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the main character of a story
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recognition
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the point when the character understands their situation in a story
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reversal
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the point in the story when the action turn back on the protagonist
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stanza
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a division or unit of a poem
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spondee
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a metrical foot
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synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole
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