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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A narrative that has a second meaning. _____ is usually in a story form and the characters in the story are representations of moral qualities.
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Anapest
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A meter with 3 syllables. 2 are accented and the 3rd isn't (com-pre-HEND)
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Assonance
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A poetic term that repeats similar vowels in a sentence of poetry. ("I ROSE and told him of my WOE")
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Aubade
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A romantic poem when the writer expresses his/her emotions on leaving his/her lover. </3
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Ballad
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A NARRATIVE POEM with 4 line STANZAS. Usually narrated in a DIRECT style.
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Caesura
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A dramatic pause after each line of verse. ("Of-hand-like--just as I--")
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Convention
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A feature of literary work. ( CHOURS of Greek tragedy) Literary _______ are defining features of novels, ballads, sonnets and plays
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Couplet
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Two lines that rhyme that may or may not be separate STANZAS in a poem
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Denotation
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A dictionary meaning of a word.
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Denouement
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It is the RESOLUTION in a plot diagram.
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Elegy
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A LYRIC POEM that expresses grief for the dead.
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Enjambment
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A run-on poetry that make sense and carries on to the next line
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Falling Meter
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Poetic meters that goes from a stressed syllable to an unstressed syllable
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Iamb
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An unstressed syllable after a stressed syllable (to-DAY)
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Quatrain
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FOUR-line STANZA in a poem
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Satire
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criticizes follies, stupidities and mishaps
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Sestina
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39 lines. 6 line stanzas that repeats the final words in each of the first 6 lines.
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Synecdoche
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Its a figure of speech. And a part is substituted for the whole.
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Trochee
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An accented syllable before an unaccented one. (FOOT-ball)
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Understatement
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A figure of speech. When something is said less then what it actually means. It is the opposite of exaggeration
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