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15 Cards in this Set
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Autobiography
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An account of the writer`s own life
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Ballad
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Song that tells a story
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Literary Ballad
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Written down in imiatiton of the old folk ballads
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Biography
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An account of a person`s life written or told by another person
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Blank verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Iambic pentameter
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Each line contains five iambs, or metrical feet that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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alliteration
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repetiton of the same constant sounds in words that are close together that are very similar
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allusion
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reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion , myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
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argument
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special form of persuasion that uses reason to try to convince a reader or listener to think or act in a certain way
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aside
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words that are spoken by a character in a play to the aduience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overhead by the other`s onstage
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assonance
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repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different constant sounds especially in words that are close together in a poem
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preposition phrase
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begins with a preposition ( a word such as above, across, behind, between, during, from , in, into , like, of, on , over, to, under, with) and ends with the object of that preposition
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adjective phrase
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a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb(which tells how,when, where, why, or to what extent, how long or how far
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connotation
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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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mood
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connotations, or the suggestive power of certain words, play an important role
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