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34 Cards in this Set
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Epic Simile
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a literary device that makes an extended comparison over several lines of a verse
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Theogony
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A term meaning "a tale of the birth of the gods"
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Narrative Poem
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a poem that tells a story
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Lyric Poem
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a poem that explores an emotion or feeling
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Contrapasso
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a term literally translated as "counter punishment"
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Terza Rima
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Three line stanza with a rhyme scheme of aba bcb cdc
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Pertrachan Sonnet
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Fourteen line poem composed of an octave and sestet
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Sura
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The word for "chapter" in the Holy Book of Islam
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Shakespearen Sonnet
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Fourteen line poem of three quatrains and a couplet
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Objective Correlative
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a concrete image that is a verbal equialent of s state of mind or feeling; the word or image provides an intuitive meaning
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Allegory
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A highly symbolic story that reveals a profound truth about human experience.
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Final Cause
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the purpose for which something is created
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Sappho
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-Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite
-"Some think a fleet" |
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Anonymous
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-The Sacrifice of Primalman-Rigveda
-Enuma Elish -The Epic of gilgamesh -Genesis -A babylonian theogony |
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Homer
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-The Odyssey
-The Illiad |
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Confusious
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Antelects
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Dante
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Dantes Inferno
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Montainge
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Essays
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Anonymous
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Qu'ran
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Petrarchan
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Conziers
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Virgil
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Anied
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Ovid
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Metamorphases
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Ovid
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Metamorphasis
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Shakespeare
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Sonnets
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Machiavelly
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The Prince
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David Wright
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Saint Judas
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Pablo Neruda
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Sonnet 17
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James Joyce
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"The Dead"
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T.S Eliott
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"The love song by J. Alfred Prufrock"
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William Williams
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"Spring and All"
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Gustave Flaubert
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"A Simple Heart"
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Leo Tolstoy
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"The Death of Ivan Ilych"
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Haruki Murakami
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"TV People"
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Franz Kafka
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"Metamorphasis"
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