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10 Cards in this Set
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Irony |
Using a word or situation to mean the opposite of its usual or literal meaning |
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Juxtaposition |
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, and setting |
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Lyric |
A type of poem which was originally a song meant to be sung |
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Malapropism |
A comic misuse of common words |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech |
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Meter |
Repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its distinct characteristic |
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Modernism |
A literary movement in the early 20th century which says there is no meaning |
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Mood |
The atmosphere in the story |
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Motif |
One of the key ideas or literary device which supports the main idea |
