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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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In the book, Animal Farm, animals come together and revolt against the humans who are mistreating them. This story can represent how the working class revolts against the higher class
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Anapest
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un-der-STAND, in-ter-RUPT, com-pre-HEND,con-tri-DICT
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Iamb
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be-HOLD, a-MUSE, a-WAKE, a-RISE, in-JECT
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Trochee
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HAP-py, FOOT-ball, DOC-tor,PIT-cher, MAR-ket, DIN-ner
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Assonance
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"Golden BELLS (a)!
What a world of happiness their harmony foreTELLS (a)! Through the balmy air of NIGHT (b) How they ring out their DELIGHT (b)!" -The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe |
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Aubade
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"I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I WOULD NOT LOOSE HER SIGHT FOR LONG : If her eyes have not blinded thine, LOOK, AND TOMORROW LATE TELL ME, Whether both the Indias of spice and mine Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me." -The Sun Rising by John Donne |
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Ballad
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"I met a Lady in the Meads
Full beautiful, a faery’s CHILD ; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were WILD―" -La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats |
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Caesura
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"To be or not to be || that is the question"-Hamlet's famous soliloquy
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Couplet
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"There was a little hermit CRAB(a)
Who thought his tank was rather DRAB (a)...."- Decorator Hermit Crab |
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Convention
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the fact that every epic story has a villain is a _____ of an epic genre
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Denotation
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sweater: a knitted garment for the upper body. The word "sweater" may __(verb version)____ pullover sweaters or cardigans, while “sweater” may also connote feelings of warmness or security.
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Elegy
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"For Lycidas is DEAD, DEAD ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?"-Lycidas by John Milton |
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Enjambment
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast"-Trees by Joyce Kilmer (hint: read every stanza by itself) |
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Falling Meter
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HIggledy, PIggledy, (CAp words are said w/ stress)
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Quatrain
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"(1)The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
(2)The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, (3)The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, (4)And leaves the world to darkness and to me." -Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray |
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Sestina
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A
B C D E F F A E B D C (each letter stands for a stanza-supposed to be ____ lines...) |
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Synecdoche
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.''-Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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understatement
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A: "How did you do on your test?"
B: "I did O.K." |
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Denouement
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In the book 1984, after Winston and his lover, Julia were caught being rebellious, they were taken to the Ministry of Love. There, O’Brien teaches them a lesson.. this is the ______ of the story
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Satire
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Person A did something wrong.
Person B says, "WOW you sure are a GENIUS!" |
