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42 Cards in this Set
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Prose
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the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
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Poetry
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the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts
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Plain language
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simple words, clearer sentence order (syntax), commonly understood references
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Ornate language
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elevated diction, inverted sentence order, learned allusions and paralellism.
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Description
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the type of writing that deals with the appearance of a person, an object, or a place.
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Narration
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the kind of writing or speaking that tells a story
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Expostition
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the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information
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Persuasion
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the type of speaking or writing that is intended to make its audience adopt a certain opinion, perform an action, or both.
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Paralellism
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the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning.
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Stanza
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a unit of a poem that is longer than a single line
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Rhyme
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the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem
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Rhythm
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the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern
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Imagery
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words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind.
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Figure of speech
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a word or expression that is not meant to be interpreited in a literal sense.
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Iamb
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a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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Iambic Pentameter
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the most common verse line in English and American poetry
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Foot
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a unit used to measure the meter, or rhythmic pattern, of a line of poetry
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Couplet
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar
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Simile
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a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect
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Alliteration
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the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.
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Personification
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a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities
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Rhetorical question
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a question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer
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Parallel structure
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the use of words, phrases, clauses and sentences that are similar in structure
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Allusion
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a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize
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Classicism
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a movement or tendency in art, litererature, and music reflecting the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome
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romanticism
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a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in Western culture during most of the ninteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism.
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Allegory
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a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities
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Tour de force
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a unique accomplishment in art or literature
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Evocative style
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long and complicated sentences.
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Tone
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the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters and readers
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Caesura
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a break or pause in a line of poetry, which contributes to the rhythm of the poem
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Internal rhyme
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rhyme occuring within a line
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Blank verse
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verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Free verse
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unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern
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Refrain
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a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated reguluarly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza
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Assonance
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
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Mood
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the prevailing feeling or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part, through descriptions of setting
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Gothic
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a term that describes the use in fiction of grotesque, gloomy settings (often castles), and mysterious, violent, and supernatural occurence to create suspence and awe.
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Foreshadowing
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the use of hints in a narrative to suggest what action is to come
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