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37 Cards in this Set
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Ballad
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a narrative poem often using common meter and sometimes including a refrain
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Bathos
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a sudden and unexpected drop from the lofty to the trivial or excessively sentimental
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Begging the Question
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the act of ignoring a problem or issue by assuming that it is already settled
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Bildungsroman
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a novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist, or main character
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Biography
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the narrative of a person's life, written by another person
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black comedy
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disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner, usually with the intention of confronting uncomfortable truths
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Cacophony
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a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds, used consciously for effect
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Caesura
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a pause in a line of poetry created not by the meter, but by the natural speaking rhythm, sometimes coinciding with punctuation.
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Canon
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an evolving group of literary works considered essential to a culture's literary tradition.
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caricature
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in writing and literature, an author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual or group
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Carpe Diem poetry
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From the Latin, the admonition often translated as "seize the day" is more accurately "pluck, as a ripe fruit or flower." It was first used by Horace in classical Rome, and is a common theme in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English love poetry: yield to love while you are still young and beautiful.
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catalog
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a rhetorical device which lists people, things, or attributes, used in epics (heroes, ships, armor), the Bible (genealogy), and Elizabethan sonnets (the physical attributes of the beloved)
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catharsis
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a cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art
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chance
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the occurrence of an even that has no apparent cause in antecedent events or in predisposition of character
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character
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any of the persons involved in a story or play
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characterization
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characters can be presented in several ways.
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cliche
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an expression used so often that is loses its freshness and clarity
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chorus
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a group of actors speaking or chanting in unison, often while going through the steps of an elaborate formalized dance; a characteristic device of Greek drama fro conveying communal or group emotion.
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climax
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the turning point or high point in a plot
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closure
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an ending or completion or something that gives a sense of finality
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coincidence
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the chance concurrence of two events having a peculiar correspondence between them
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colloquialism
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an informal expression or slang term; acceptable in conversation but not usually in formal writing
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comedy
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a type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness
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commercial fiction
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fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste
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common meter
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alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, in four-line stanzas typically rhyming abab or abcb. also called hymn meter and ballad mater.
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complaint
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a lyric poem of lament, regret, and sadness which may explain the speaker's mood, describe its cause, discuss remedies, and appeal for help. the blues is a musical counterpart to the literary form.
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conceit
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a metaphor of great ingenuity in which a fanciful notion, an elaborate analogy, or a striking parallel between seemingly dissimilar things is spun out at length.
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concrete language
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the diction of specificity, referring to particular persons or things
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conflict
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a clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama
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connotation
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the association or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning
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consonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
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context
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the matter that surrounds the word or text in question, lending it significance, even irony
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continuous form
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poetry not divided into stanzas
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convention
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in writing, a practice or principle that is accepted as true or correct
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cosmic irony
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the depiction of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent to human suffering, which creates a painful contrast between a character's purposeful activity and its ultimate meaninglessness
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couplet
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two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rime.
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