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30 Cards in this Set
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Conflict
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The problem that a character is facing.
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Connotation
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The secondary meaning of a word.
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Consonance
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The harmonic way of words making sounds.
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Couplet
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A pair of lines or verses.
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Dactyl
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One long syllable then two short.
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HU-man-ly
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Denotation
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The actual definition of a word.
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Denouement
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Final resolution to a problem.
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Deus ex machina
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When a seemingly unfixable problem is suddenly fixed.
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Dialect
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The author using the way someone speaks as a way to build a story.
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Diction
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Style of writing
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Didactic Verse
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Instructing people by ridiculing vices in society; propaganda
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Dionysian
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Sensual, spontaneous, emotional
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Dramatic Irony
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When the audience knows what's going on in a story but the other characters don't.
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Dystopia
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A society characterized by human misery, squalor, overpopulation, and oppression.
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Elegy
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Song or poem for the dead or mourning.
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Ballad
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A simple, narrative poem that can be sung.
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Bathos
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An extreme anticlimax; going from being "high-and-mighty" to being "normal."
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Begging The Question
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Assuming the answer; circular reasoning
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Bildungsroman
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A story who's main purpose is to educate and develop a protagonist.
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed verse used in epics and dramatic pieces.
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Bombast
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Overly pompous speech.
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Cacophony
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Meaningless mixture of noise
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Caesura
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A break made by lines in a sentence pause.
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Hello || My name is Rebecca.
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Canon
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Scared book.
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Carpe Diem
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Seize the day
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Catharsis
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Relief of emotional tensions through art.
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Chaismus
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Reversed words in parallel sentences.
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Classicism
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A novel built on the basic themes of literature (Greek and Roman).
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Colloquial
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Informal speaking.
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Conceit
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Elaborate metaphor.
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