British literature Flashcards
1
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A short simple narrative song
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Ballad
2
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Folk ballad
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Characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic in dialogue
3
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A group of stories unified by central situation
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Frame Story
4
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A pair of rhymed lines
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Couplets
5
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The attitude of work toward its subject
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Tone
6
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A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
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Quatrains
7
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Typical long narrative poem
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Romance
8
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Instruction in latter, to teach and delight
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Didactism
9
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(Classical work reference) uses humor in order to make a new point
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Mock Epic
10
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A connected series of incidents
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Plot
11
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Pervading tone or mood of a place, situation
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Atmosphere
12
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Exaggeration
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Hyperbole
13
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
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Symbolism
14
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Implies more than what is said
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Understatement
15
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The substitution of the name of an attribute
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Metonymy
