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15 Cards in this Set
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Ode |
Lyric poem marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings towards the subject |
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Old English |
Anglo-Saxon language spoken in what is now England from approximately 450 to 1150 A.D. |
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Omniscient narrator |
Narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story |
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Onomatopoeia |
Use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning |
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Ottava rima |
Eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem |
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Oxymoron |
Term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect |
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Parable |
Story consisting of events from which moral or spiritual truth may be derived |
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Paradox |
A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true |
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Parody |
Imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject |
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Paraphrase |
Version of a text put into simpler, everyday, words |
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Pastoral |
Work of literature dealing with rural life |
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Pathetic fallacy |
Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects |
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Pathos |
Element in literature that simulates pity or sorrow |
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Pentameter |
Verse with five poetic feet per line |
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Periodic sentece |
Sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end |
