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20 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem |
attacking a person instead of an issue |
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Anachronism |
Something that is appropriate for the period that it's not it |
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Antimetabole |
figure of speech where words from the first half are repeated in the second |
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Ballad |
narrative set to music |
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Bathos |
suddent change in the tone of work, usually to sublime and ridiculous |
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bildingsroman |
coming of age adult story |
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cacophany |
mixture of harsh and discordant noises |
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consonace |
constant repeating of a sound in close proximity (think alliteration) |
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Cosmic Irony |
inconsistancy in expecatoin versus reality |
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Deus ex machina |
to impact a problem by adding an unexpecte character |
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elegy |
mournful poem, eulogy, funeral |
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end stopped line |
line ends in punctuation to show completion |
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epithet |
descriptive term added to name |
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ethos |
appeal to audience by showing ethical credibility |
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euphony |
quality of being pleasant or harmonious to listen to |
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Feet |
units of poetry line |
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hypophora |
when the speaker asks a question then immidiately answers it |
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internal rhyme |
rhyme words in same line or in the middle |
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meter |
rhythm of syllables in a line or stanza |
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meiosis |
minimize the importance of something through euphemism |
