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20 Cards in this Set
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antagonist
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goes against the protagonist
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aphorism
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brief statement that expresses a general truth of life
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ballad
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narrative poem
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blank verse
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doesnt have a rhyme but has a meter
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caesura
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a pause or break in a line of poetry
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climax
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turning point
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conflict
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a struggle between opposing forces
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denouement
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falling action
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foil
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charcter that traits contrast with another chacters to emphasizes the main character
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free verse
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no rhyme or meter
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hyperbole
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a state of exaggeration
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lyric poem
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short poem, single speaker, intense emotional language
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meter
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rhyme scheme in a poem
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narrative
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relates a series of events
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omniscient
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all knowing narrator that isnt part of the story
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prose
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anthing that isnt poetry
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protogonist
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main character
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refrain
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repeated with regularrity at the end of each stanza
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satire
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writing with the purpose of improving society
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sonnet
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14 lines, iambic pentameter
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