English Flashcards

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Elegy

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Poetry that expresses grief or loss

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Ballad

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Short narrative folk song - 4 line stanzas (alternating syllables 8 then six syllables)

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Haiku

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575

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Epic

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Highlights heroic deeds

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5
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Sonnet

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14 lines and rhyme scheme. Abab cdcd or abba

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Ethos

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Ethics - beliefs, ideas

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Pathos

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Emotional

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9
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Logos

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Logical approach

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Explanatory

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Tells audience how something works or why something happens

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Juxtaposition

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Comparing or contrasting two things to create an effect

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Analogy

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Compares two unlike things

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13
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Anaphora

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Repetition of words at start of sentence

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14
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Simple sent

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Contains only one independent clause

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15
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Compound sentence

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Two independent clauses

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Complex sent

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Sub clause ex) after the French Revolution, And independent clause

17
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Compound complex sentence

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Two or more independent with at least one dependent clause

18
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Gerunds

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Nouns

-Baking is one of my favorite hobbies.
-She loves reading books to the children at the library.
-When it comes to hunting deer, nobody is better than Leroy.

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Participles

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The crying baby had a wet diaper”.
“The wrecked car was totaled”.

Adjectives or verb tenses