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23 Cards in this Set
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Ballad |
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
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Refrain |
to stop oneself from doing something |
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Incremental Reputition |
a device used in poetry of the oral tradition in which a line is repeated in a changed context or with minor changes in the repeated part |
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Vernacular |
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region |
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Iambic Pentameter |
a line or verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable |
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Characterization |
a description of qualities or pecularities |
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Frame Story |
a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story |
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Imagery |
visually descriptive or figurative language |
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Satire |
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity |
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Irony |
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite |
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Verbal Irony |
irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another |
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Situational Irony |
irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended |
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Dramatic Irony |
irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
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Couplet |
two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit |
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Half Rhyme |
a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds so not match |
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Stanza |
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem |
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Verse |
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm |
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Rhyme Scheme |
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
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Internal Refrain |
a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with each other |
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Troubadours |
a french medieval lyric poet composing and singing in the 11th-13th century especially on the theme of courtly love |
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Folk Ballad |
a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of region and forms part of their culture |
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Ballad Stanza |
a four line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet |
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Literary Ballad |
is a narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad |
