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Literary Terms Part 2 Flashcards

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech with deliberate exaggeration

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Heroic couplet

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Pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter

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Iambic pentameter

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5 feet of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Imagery

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5 senses

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In medias res

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In the middle of things

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Irony

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An inconsistency with what is expected

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Kenning

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A compound word used as a metaphor

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Litote

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A trope making a point by negating the opposite (she’s not unfriendly but neither is she kind)

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Medievalism

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Knights, damsels, dragons, etc.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another

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Meter

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Regular rhythmic pattern

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Monologue

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A narrative by one person

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Mood

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Tone and atmosphere

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Motif

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Recurring symbol or idea

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Narrative poem

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Tells a story

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Octet

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An 8 line stanza

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Ode

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Talks about and elevates an idea

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Onomatopoeia

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Signifies meaning by sounds

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Oxymoron

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Two words combined to make a sensible word (bittersweet, love hate, walking dead)

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Parallelism

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A comparison by two grammatically similar lines

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Personification

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Giving human traits to an inanimate object

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Plot

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Series of events

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Point of view

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Perspective from character or reader

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Prose

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Not poetry

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Prosopopeia

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Inanimate object speaking

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Protagonist

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Main character

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Pun

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Play on words

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Quatrain

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Stanza with 4 lines

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Refrain

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Recurring line or phrase

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhyme in a poem

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Rising action

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Between conflict and climax

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Satire (direct and indirect)

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D: talking to reader
I: talking to character

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Scansion

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Shows pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables through symbols

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Sestet

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6 line stanza

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Setting

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Time and place

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Soliloquy

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Private monologue revealing one’s inner thoughts

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Sonnet

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A lyric poem with 14 lines

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Stanza

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Group of lines in a poem

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Style

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The way the thing was written

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Symbol

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Something that represents something else

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Synecdoche

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A part of something is used to refer to the whole (all hands on deck)

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Theme

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A recurring idea

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Tone

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The attitude of the author

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Voice

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Sound of the writing

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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but expresses a truth

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