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Close Reading Midterm Flashcards

1
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Apostrophe

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Addressing an absent person or thing

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Diacope

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Repetition of the same root word

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Epizeuxis

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When words are repeated for emphasis

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Clymax, or Gradatio

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Repeating one word, then another, then another

“She abandoned religion for mesmerism, mesmerism for politics, and politics for…”

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics

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End Stops

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When a line of poetry ends with a period or definitive punctuation mark

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive or figurative language

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Personification

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Giving an inanimate object or concept human charateristics

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Metaphor

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When a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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Enjambment

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When a sentence continues onto another line of poetry without punctuation

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Contrast

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The differences between two or more things

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Alliteration/Consonance

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Repetition of the same initial consonant sound in adjacent or nearby words, especially at the beginning of str

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13
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Sibilance

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Repetition of the ‘s’ sound

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Repetition

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When something repeats.

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15
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Allusion

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A device which works between texts rather than wholly within individual texts

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Literary trope/ Convention

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The use of figurative language for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech

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17
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Genre

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A way of organizing cultural products into different kinds

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18
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Diction

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Word choice

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19
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Rhyme Scheme

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A regular pattern of end rhymes in the stanzas of a poem

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Speaker

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The narrative voice in the poem. Not always the author.

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21
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Petrarchan Sonnet

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Octave and Sestet with a volta separating them.

Rhyme: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

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22
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English (Shakespearean) Sonnet

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3 Quatrains and a heroic couplet. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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23
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Meter

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The division of poetry into lines based on beats and offbeats.

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24
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Syntax

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Sentence Structure

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or words at the start of successive phrases, sentences, or lines.

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26
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Intertexuality

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Texts broader than literature or even writing

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27
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Rhythm

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Regular Repetition

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Rising Rhythm

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A poetic rhythm whose units ‘rise’ in stress from an unstressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter. (unstressed)(stressed)

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29
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Rising Duple

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one-TWO, one-TWO

Iambic

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Rising Triple

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one-two-THREE, one-two-THREE

Anapestic

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Falling Rhythm

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A poetic rhythm whose units ‘fall’ in stress from a stressed syllable.

32
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Falling Duple

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ONE-two, ONE-two

Trochaic

33
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Falling Triple

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ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three

Dactylic

34
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Prosody

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Analysis of meter, rhythm, line, and stanza

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Scansion

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Analysis of stress and rhythm in patterns

36
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Masculine Rhyme (or ending)

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Monosyllabic rhymes.

Ends on a stress

37
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Feminine Rhyme (or ending)

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Polysyllabic rhymes

Ends on unstressed

38
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Metrical Feet

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The basic unit of measurement of syllabic meter.
A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable.
(Iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic)

39
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Line Length

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Shows the number of feet per line
Monometer (1)
Dimeter (2)
Trimeter (3)
Tetrameter (4)
Pentameter (5)
Hexameter (6)
Heptameter (7)
Octameter (8)
40
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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

41
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Heroic Couplets

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2 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter

42
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End Rhyme

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Two or more words that look like rhymes to the eye, but do not actually rhyme.

43
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Eye Rhyme

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When a poem has lines ending with words that rhyme.

44
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Internal Rhyme

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A rhyme between words that are within the verse line.

45
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Free Verse

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Unstructured poetry

46
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Double Syntax

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Words or phrases can be taken as belonging grammatically either with what comes before or with what comes before or with what comes after it

47
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Metronomy

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Change of name, where one thing is named by another thing closely associated with it

48
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Tenor (metaphors)

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What is being discussed

49
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Vehicle

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The metaphorical term

50
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Ground

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Similarities between Tenor and vehicle

51
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Simile

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Where one thing is explicitly compared to another thing, using like or as

52
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Explicit Metaphor

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Both the Tenor and Vehicle are present

“An Englishman’s home is his castle.”

53
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Implicit Metaphor

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Only the Vehicle is present

“We made two surgical strikes this afternoon.”

54
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Ploce

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The repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning

55
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Polyptoton

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Repeating a word in a different form

56
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Antanaclasis

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Repeating a word whose meaning changes in the second instance.

57
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Conduplicato

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When the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences

58
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Epanalepsis

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The repetition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence.

59
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Periphrasis

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Roundabout way of saying something, using more words that strictly necessary

60
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Irony

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Which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case

61
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Verbal Irony

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When you say one thing and mean another

62
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Romantic Irony

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The narrator of a literary work creates an illusion of reality but then destroys the illusion by revealing that he is arbitrarily making up the story as he goes

63
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Dramatic Irony

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When the audience knows more than the speaker

64
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Ethos

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An appeal to ethics

65
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Pathos

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An appeal to emotion

66
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Asyndeton

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The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

67
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Abiguity

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When a poem or a passage can be read in more than one way.

68
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Exordium

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The introduction of a speech where one announces the subjects

69
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Isocolon

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A series of similarly structured elements having the same length. A kind of parallelism

70
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Mesodiplosis

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Repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences

71
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Auxesis

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Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force or size

72
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Antithesis

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The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas

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