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42 Cards in this Set
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Blank Verse
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Poem that doesn't have a rhyme scheme, but does have a correct pattern
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Free Verse
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Poem with no rhyme scheme or structure
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Rhyme Verse
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Poem with Rhym
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Rhymed Scheme
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Obvious Pattern of rhyme
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Slant/near Rhyme
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Word that almost rhyme
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Direct/true Rhyme
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Words that rhyme
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word.
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds within a line that don't rhyme
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Consomance
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Repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the end or words
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Personification
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Giving a nonhuman object human characteristics
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using like or as
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Meaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as
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First Person
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I
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Third Limited
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One person's thoughts
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Third Omniscient
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Everyone's thoughts
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External Conflict
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Struggle that occurs between a character and an outside force
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Internal Conflict
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Emotional struggle that occurs within a charater
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Irony
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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
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Theme
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Message the author trying to get across
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Protagonist
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Main charater
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Anatagonist
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Character who has conflict with the protagonist
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Static Charater
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A character who goes through little or no change; stays the same
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Dynamic Charater
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A charter who changes throughout the story
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Appeal to Authority
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Appealing to the respect people have for famous people.
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Logical Appeal
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Appeal that addresses listeners reasoning abilities
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Emotional Appeal
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An argument that appeals to the readers emotions
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Antithesis
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Expresses contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical style
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Repetition
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Repeating of words or phrases
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Aphorism
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A pithy observation that contains general truth
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Primary Source
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They were there, Like a speech
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Secondary Source
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Textbook
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HUMANS AND NATURE =
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Balence
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Romanticism
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Thoreau-Walden
Emerson Emily Dickinson |
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Native Americans
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Believe to be humans living harmoniously with nature
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1600s
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Key to puritan heart and soul was religious belief;=
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Transendentalists
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Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau
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Romantics
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Detailed, often exotic settings/ emphasis on variety of emotions/existence of entertaining plots and charaters
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Relism
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Mark Twain- Aphorisms & use of local color realism
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Modernism
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Reflect changes that took place in society in early 20th century
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Harlem Renassance
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Took place in New York area;first time blacks were put in the spotlight and able to be heard
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Contemporary
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Pretty much anything after WWII
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The Crucible
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Motivation of confessions and accusations by girls in court/ Elizabeth being taken to jail/Proctor signing his testimony & reasoning for Danforth to not accept
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