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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Allegory

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Symbolic narrative

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Kennings

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Pronoun

Gold friend

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Sonnets

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Poems

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Motif

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Reoccurring subject

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Metaphysical conceit

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Extended abstract metaphor

Love vs. compass

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Apostrophe

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Refers to something that’s not there or inatimite

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Frame story

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Story with in a story

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Universal themes

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Themes that are constant throughout time
Love and evil or good and evil
Religion
Life and death

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Pastorals

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Elizabethan lyric poems

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Farce

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Taming of the shrew

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Aside

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Things in the way

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Soliloquy

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Extended analogue by oneself on stage

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