Defintions Flashcards

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The name had been changed

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Passive

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2
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He changed the name

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Active

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3
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Olfactory imagery

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Smell

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4
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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech which represents a whole,part represents a hole

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5
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Analepsis

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Flashback

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6
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Alliteration

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The repetition of identical consonant sounds

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7
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Allusion

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Reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize.

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8
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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

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9
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Assonance

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The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea.

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10
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Caesura

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A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry.

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11
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Chiasmus

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Chiasmus is a crossing or reversal of two elements Example: You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

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12
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Consonance

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the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow

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13
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Couplet

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Two successive rhyming lines.

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14
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Enjambment

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A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.

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15
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Hyperbole

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Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect

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16
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Internal rhyme

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Example Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

17
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Onomatopoeia

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Sound

18
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Olfactive

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Smell

19
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Sestet

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6 line stanza

20
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Synaesthesia

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A rhetorical figure that describes one sensory impression in terms of a different sense

21
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Discordant

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Adjective, things not in harmony

22
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Allegory

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A hidden meaning