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42 Cards in this Set
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Satire
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A literary/artistic work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
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Horatian
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Light-hearted satire; funny, witty, mild, gentle. Directed at folly rather than evil.
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Juvenalian
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"Serious" satire; usually filled with bitter, caustic attacks. More abrasive, savage; darker humor. Addresses social evil, corruption. often pessimistic.
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satirical devices
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Humor (exaggeration, understatement, surprise); Irony; Invective; Mock Encomium (false praise); Grotesque; Mock epic; Inflation/Diminution; absurdity
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Poetic structure
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Title, form, movement, syntax, punctuation
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Poetic Language
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Figurative language, diction, allusion, imagery
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Poetic Musicality
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Rhyme scheme, rhythm/meter, sound effects
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stanza
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division of a poem based on thought or form
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couplet, tercet, quatrain, sestet, octave
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stanza lengths
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Shakespearean sonnet
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3 quatrains and a couplet; ababcdcdefefgg
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Petrarchan sonnet
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octave, sestet. usually noticeable division.
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terza rima
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Used by Dante. three line stanza rhyming aba, cdc, ded. usually iambic pentameter
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allegory
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a description/narrative with elements that make sense on both literal and symbolic levels. Dante.
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allusion
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reference to another work
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apostrophe
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something absent, dead, or nonhuman is addressed as if it could respond
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conceit
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Donne used many-the flea. An elaborate, ingenious metaphor.
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connotation
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additional meaning apart from literal definition
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denotation
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literal definition
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imagery
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collective set of words that appeal to the senses in a work.
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irony
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opposite of what is expected; incongruity
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overstatement (hyperbole)
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exaggeration
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oxymoron
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figure of speech combining two apparently contradictory elements. The silence was deafening.
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pastoral
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work that portrays rural life in idealized way
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pun
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play on words
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paradox
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statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements.
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personification
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human attributes given to animal, object, or concept
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symbol
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figure of speech in which something means more than what it is
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meter
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regularized rhythm; arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time
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iamb
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a foot (measurement of verse) with two syllables: unaccented-accented
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lyric
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short poem with intense personal emotion instead of description of situation
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enjambment
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continuation of sentence from one line of poem to the next
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of internal vowel sounds (the rain in spain)
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that mimic their meaning in their sound. bang!
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internal rhyme
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similarity occurring between two or more words in same line of verse
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rhyme scheme
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recurrent pattern of rhyme
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setting
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contextual time and place (duh)
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point of view
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angle of vision in which story is presented
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ambiguity
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author's ability to express more than one interpretation in a single piece of writing
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plot
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know sequence (exposition...)
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theme
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a main idea or basic meaning of a work, or a life lesson.
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