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27 Cards in this Set
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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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Anachronism
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Someone or something out of place in time
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Aphorism
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A terse saying embodying a general truth or astate observation
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely
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Anaphora
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Repetition of a word at the beginning of sentences
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Ad hominem
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Responding to a conflict with an attack on a person rather than a good comeback
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Ambiguity
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Unclear; uncertainty in the intended meaning
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Apollonian
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Brave, wise
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Apostrophe
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Breaking off from the story to explain a character who is not present
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Apotheosis
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Praise or uplifting of a person to the rank of a god
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Assonance
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Vowel rhyme
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Asyndeton
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Leaving out conjugations
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She ran, she tucked her arm under her coat, she tried to hide it from the man.
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Aubade
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A song or piece sung as a serenade.
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