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14 Cards in this Set
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speaker
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the voice that is talking to us in the poem
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extended metaphor
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metaphor that develops its comparison over several lines of a poem or throughout the whole poem
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dialect
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way of speaking that is characteristics of a particular region or group of people
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connotation
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all the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests
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denotation
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literal meaning
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subjective statement
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personal statements or judgements
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objective statement
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things that can be proved true
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aphorism
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a wise saying
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indirect characterization
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putting together different things to figure out who the character is
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direct characterization
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the writer tells us directly what the character is like
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dramatic monologue
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a character gives dramatic speech to a group of actors on stage
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free verse
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using no regular meter or rhyme scheme
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blank verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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tone
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the attitude of the speaker towards the reader.
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