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52 Literary Terms Flashcards

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State of having more than one meaning with uncertainty. (Buckle)

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Ambiguity

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Extended metaphor in a narrative with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. Duality(Alice in Wonderland)

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Allegory

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Figure of speech in which someone directly addresses some abstract quality or nonexistent personage.
(O taco, o taco, how could I live without thee)

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Apostrophe

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Emotional implications and associations that words may carry

Scrawny

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Connotation

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General agreement about basic procedures, like writing, format, grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling

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Convention

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The basic meaning of a word, independent from its emotional coloration or associations(opposite of connotation)

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Denotation

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Intended to teach a lesson. Authors may sound self-righteous when writing these works

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Didactic

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Insertion of material often not closely related to the subject in work.

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Digression

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Pithy saying. Saying should have compression, balance, and polish.

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Epigram

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Device in which indirectness replaces directness of statement, to avoid offensiveness. (Senior citizen= old people)

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Euphemism

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Applied to any art having bizarre, incongruous, ugly, unnatural, fanatastic, abnormal qualities. (Poe writes like this)

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Grotesque

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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group or as a negative (doctor)

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Jargon

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Accurate to the letter; without embellishment

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Literal

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Writing showing subjectivity, expressing strong emotion, melodic or musical qualities, imagination (dance)

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Lyrical

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Self-contradictory combination of words. (Jumbo shrimp)

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Oxymoron

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Illustrative story teaching a lesson. (Told by Christ)

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Parable

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Statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd May actually be well founded or true
(The last shall be the first)

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Paradox

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Composition imitating another, usually serious, piece.

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Parody

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Figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, or inanimate objects with a human form

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Personification

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First person narrators are generally less trust worthy than third person esp. If narrator is naïve

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Reliability

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Question not requiring a reply or intended to induce a reply

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Rhetorical question

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Speech delivered while speaker is alone on stage, calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character’s mind

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Soliloquy

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Has become to mean anything that repeats of duplicates something without variation. Oversimplified mental pictures or judgements

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Stereotype

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Formula for presenting an argument logically. (All public libraries should serve the people. This is a public library. Therefore, this library should serve the people)

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Syllogism

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An attitude or position on a problem taken by a writer or speaker with the purpose of proving or supporting it.

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Thesis

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Repetition of initial consonant or any vowel sounds in closely associated syllables esp. To stress syllables

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Alliteration

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Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. ( all all alone, alone on a wide wide sea)

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Assonance

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Four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four

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Ballad meter

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Poetic foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (DUM da da)

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Dactyl

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Lines of poetry in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end of the line

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End-stopped

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Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical

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Free verse

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Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa,bb,cc with the thought usually completed in the two line unit

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Heroic couplet

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A poetic line of six feet

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Hexameter

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A poetic foot with two syllables, the first unaccented and the second accented ( da DUM)

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Iamb

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Rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllables in a line

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Internal rhyme

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Words that by their sound suggest their meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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Poetic line with five feet

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Pentameter

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Seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc

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Rhyme royal

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Poet of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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Recurrent grouping of two or more verse lines in term of length, metrical form, rhyme scheme, or thought

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Stanza

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Three line stanza,

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Terza rima

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Poetic line with four lines

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Tetrameter

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Word or phrase or clause that whose denotation is replaced by a pronoun

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Antecedent

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Group of words that has a subject and a predicate

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Clause

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Mark of punctuation that consists of three periods and indicates that the thought is being cut off or that material is being left out of a quote

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Ellipsis

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A command

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Imperative

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Adj. and adverbs are parts of speech that change or describe nouns, adj. or verb

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Modify

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Arrangement that has one element of equal importance with another that is similarly developed and phrased

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Parallel structure

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Sentence not grammatically complete before it’s end

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Periodic sentence

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Diction consists of vocabulary and patterns of arrangement

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Syntax

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