Literary Terms Flashcards
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Allegory
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A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.
2
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Anachronism
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Anything that is out of time or out of place.
3
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds.
4
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Ballad
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Poem written in song-like stanza form
5
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Couplet
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Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
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Elegy
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A poem of mourning
7
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Epic
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A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society
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Free verse
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Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
9
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Oxymoron
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Two things that are opposites
10
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Theme
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The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
