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75 Cards in this Set
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allegory
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a story or tale with two or more levels of meaning
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alliteration
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initial consonant sounds
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allusion
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reference to a well known person place event or literary work
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assonance
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repetition of vowl sounds
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blank verse
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vers of poetry written in unrhymed imabic pentameter lines
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cliches
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a trite sterotyped expression
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connotation
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ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicicit meaning
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consonance
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repetition of final consonant sounds
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denotation
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dictionary meaning
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diction
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authors choice of words especially slnag opr colloquial language
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free verse
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poetry not written in a regular pattern of meater and rhyme
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graphic elements
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word position
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hyperbole
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deliberate exaggeration
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idioms
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expression of language region commmunity or class of people
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imagery
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descriptive or figurative language
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metaphor
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when one thing is spoken of as if it is another
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meter
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rhythmical pattern of a poem
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mood
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feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage
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onomatopoeia
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words that imitate sounds
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personification
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nonhuman object is given human qualities
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puns
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a play on words when one word has two meanings or words that sound alike
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rhyme
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repetition of sounds at the end of words
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sensory language
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writing or speech that appeals to oneo r more senses
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similes
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figure of speech using like or as to compare two unlike objects
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sonnets
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a 14 line lyrical poem
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stanza
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repeated grouping of two or more lines
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symbol
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character place thing or event that stands for something else
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syntax
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the rules for the patterns in language
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theme
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a central message or insight into tlife revealed through a literary work
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tone writers attitude toward his or her audience or subject
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tone
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a writers distinctive sound or way of speaking on the page
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voice
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decent from higher to lower state of being
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the fall
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befriends the hero and serves loyally
nature ally to the hero |
friendly beast
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surrounds swirls and surrounds the character
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wind
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water and birth vs. alienation loneliness starvation
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water vs. desert
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the fordidden and unknown
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the forest
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raised by strangers and returns with soulution
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the boy from the provinceses
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SEARCH TO RESTORE FERTILITY TO WASTED LAND
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quest
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instinctive wisdome vs. educated poor chices
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innate wisdom vs. educated strupity
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center of the world
where the lights touch the earth |
mountians
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coldness of death
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ice/snow
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spirtual energy
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fire
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heros shelter
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haven vs. wilderness
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a step to complete the quest
superman deed |
task
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skies and moujntiantops
God vs. bowels of earth and demonds |
Heaven vs. hell
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vulnerable woman rescued by the hero
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damsel in distress
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hero has real and psychological wound and a loss of innocence
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unhealable wound
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love affair fated to end tragically
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star crossed lovers
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loyal companions willing to face peril together
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hunting group of companions
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carry the blame and the sins of society
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scapegoat
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ideal inspirational and spiritual ideal intelluectual attraction
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platonic
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hero searches truth or inforamtion
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journey
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with a good hear a redeemable devil figure
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evil figure with ultimly good heart
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initiation to adult life
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initaiation
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parallell between cycle of nature and life
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death and rebirth
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protagonist with series of well marked adventures
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hero
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hope and renewal vs. unknown and ignorance
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light vs. darkness
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mosnter
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creathers of nightmare
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banished for crime real or imaginary
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outcast
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sensuous beauty protagonist is physically attracted downfall
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temptress
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figur evil incarnate offers worldy good fame knoledge for soul
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devil figure
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female with fearless sense of honor
tempress |
amazone warrior
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fertility symbol
offers spiritual and emotional nourishment |
green
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ceremonies that initiate experience
rite of passage to adult hood |
initiation
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brings new life
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rain
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world vs. nature good vs. technology evel
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nature vs the mechanized world
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supernatural force
God interveans (good or evil) |
supernatural intervention
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couplet
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two lines that rhyme
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rhyme scheme
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aa bb cc
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white
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light innoncence purity virginity
death terror supernatural and binding truth |
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black
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knowlege and intelligence
evil melancholy chaos mystery unknown and death |
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yelllow
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hope and happiness
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green
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life rebirth hope and ferttility
death and decay |
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purple
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power and royalty
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seven
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most potent union of three and four
completion of cycle and perfect order |
