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Final Exam Flashcards

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Denotation

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literal meaning of a word

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Hyperbole

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a type of figurative speech that uses verbal exaggeration to make a point

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Simile

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a direct comparison of two dissimilar things using the words like or as

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Alliteration

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the repetition of initial consonant sounds of a sequence of words

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Symbol

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an object, image, character, or action that suggests meaning beyond the everyday literal level

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Oxymoron

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a version of paradox that combines contradictory words into a compact, often two-word term

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Metaphor

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a close comparison of two dissimilar things that creates a fusion of identity between the things that are compared

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Dramatic monologue

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a poem in which a character addresses another character or the reader

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the associations a word carries beyond its literal meaning.

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the associations a word carries beyond its literal meaning.

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Colloquial language

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familiar and conversational speech

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Stanza

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a division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form—either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another.

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Syntax

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the grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.

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13
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy evening wrote by

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Robert frost

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14
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We Wear the Mask was wrote by ?

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Do not go gentle into that good night was write by ?

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Dylan Thomas

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Richard Cory wrote by ?

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 Edwin Arlington Robinson

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The Road Not Taken wrote by?

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Robert frost

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The unknown Citizen wrote by ?

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W.H.Auden 1940

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My Last Duchess wrote by?

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Robert browning 1842

20
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War Is Kind wrote by ?

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Stephen cranes 1899

21
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Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers wrote by?

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Adrienne Rich

22
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My Papa’s Waltz wrote by ?

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Theodore Roethke

23
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Those Winter Sundays wrote by ?

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1962 American Robert Haden

24
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A Poison Tree wrote by?

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William Blake

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The Man He Killed wrote by?

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Thomas hardy

26
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A rose for Emily written by who

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William Faulkner

27
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The lady with the dog was written by who

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Anton Checkhov

28
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A worn path was written by who ?

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Eudora Welty

29
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The storm

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Kate Chopin

30
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

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Katherinne Anne porter

31
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The Cask of Amontillado

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Edgar Allen Poe

32
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Animal farm

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George Orwell

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