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15 Cards in this Set
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the repetition of the same sounds or the same kinds of sounds
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alliteration
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giving inaminite objects human like qualities
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personification
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a writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally
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figurative language
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a hint of events to come
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foreshadowing
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someone or something that brings about change. (a character that makes things happen)
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catalyst
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the audience knows something the characters do not know.
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dramatic irony
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the actor is alone on the stage and is talking to himself. It is used to let the audience know what the actor is thinking.
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soliloquy
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a comparison of two unlike objects using "as" or "like"
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simile
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two successive lines usually rhyming and having the same meter.
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couplet
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a specific rhyme scheme- a sonnet composed of 3 quartrains and 1 couplet... 14 lines
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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a short and long stressed syllable.
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iamb
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a meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line wiht 5 accents... short-long
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iambic pentameter
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four successive lines usually rhyming and having the same meter
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quartrain
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the arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza
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rhyme scheme
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a comparison of 2 unlike objects without using the words "like" or "as".
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metaphor
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