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20 Cards in this Set
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antagonist
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The characters of Cobra in G.I.JOE, or the witch in The Chronicles of Narnia. Both try to stop the "good guy."
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blank verse
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Jonathan's a friend at M-V-H-S
Quieter than a candle and as bright! |
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closed form
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A __________ poem, like a sonnet or sestina, or even a haiku, has a lot of words:
"A goldfish plashes I don't know why he looks up At me? You? Us?" |
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diction
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks the egg the meat is sucked out of the egg.there is nothing left of the other."...
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elegy
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"One really famous elegy Walt Whitman's O captain! My captain!
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flashback
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I walked out of the room,and saw the portrait of my mother in the otherwise empty hallway.*I remembered,years ago,my father would stare at it for a minutes,sometimes hours,before a bird chirping would awaken him for his trance.*Without warning a, bird chirped, and I immediately tore my eyes away from that portrait.
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foil
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a character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist bu providing a strong contrast with them
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free verse
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A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification.
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literal language
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To convert an utterance into meaning, the human requires a cognitive framework, made up of memories of all the possible meanings that might be available to apply to the particular words in their context.
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ode
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sing me those odes, still unknown to the French muse, with a lute well turned to the Greek and Roman lyre and, let no sound be without some mark of rare and ancient learning.
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recognition
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the state of being recognized
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reversal
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a change for the worse
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sonnet
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a lyric poem of fourteen lines
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Stanza
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day. |
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Ballad
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The shadow of the day may show,
and the light of the night may go. |
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Convention
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The division of play into acts and scenes is dramatic convention.
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Connotation
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The green connotes ideas of loving nature.
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Theme
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"Don't abuse" <----theme
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Literal Language
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"The bird died"
instead of "The bird went to heaven" |
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Foreshadowing
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"It will rain to day"
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