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13 Cards in this Set
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Antithesis
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A contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement
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Irony
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A pointed contrast between reality and expectations
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verbal irony
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A contrast between what is said and what is actually meant
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dramatic irony
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A contrast between what a character knows and what the reader or audience knows.
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situational irony
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A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen
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Diary
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is a daily, personal account of feelings, impressions, and event. unlike journals, which are usually less personal records of events often written with another reader in mind, most diaries are quite intimate and written only for the owner's private reference and pleasure
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Biography
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An account of a person's life written or told by another person
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Auto-Biography
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An account of a person's life written or told by that person
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essay
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a short piece of non-fiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited viewpoint
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pastoral
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poems describing the countryside
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moc-epic
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a comic narrative poem that parodies the epic by treating a trivial subject in a lofty, grand manner. A mock epic uses dignified language, elaborate figures of speech, and super-natural intervention
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novel
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long fictional pros, narratives
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satire
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a kind of particular writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
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