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20 Cards in this Set
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Denotation
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The literal meaning of a term
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Diction
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The word choice and style of your speaking
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Foil
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a character whose personality and attitude is opposite the personality and attitude of another character
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Assonance
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The same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words
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Octave
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a rhythmic group of 8 lines of verse
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Meter
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The basic rhythm established in a poem
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Recognition
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The point where a character fully understands his/her situation
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Satire
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the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, etc.
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Ballad
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a short narrative poem, written to be sung
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Syntax
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The arrangement of words in a sentence
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Onomatopoeia
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Using words to mimic the sound they make
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Quatrain
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A four line stanza or poem
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Elegy
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A poem or song created for a person who is deceased
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Denouement
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The final resolution or clarification of a sequence of events
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Enjambment
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the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a break
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Epigram
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A short witty poem
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Falling meter
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Meter which uses strong stress followed by one or more weak stresses and so creates a falling sense to the poem
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Hyperbole
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A huge exaggeration
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Iamb
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A poem with unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables
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Metonymy
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A phrase that has a closely related term substituted for an object or idea
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