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Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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The literal dictionary dictionary definition of a word

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Denotation

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2
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The personal definition or associated triggered by a word, words that stir up your emotions

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Connotation

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3
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The attitude expressed by the writer towards the subject

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Tone

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4
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The person who is speaking in a poem, the voice of the poem

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Speaker

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The person who is telling the story, the voice of the story

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Narrator

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The personality or style of the writer that seems to come alive in the words

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Voice

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7
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This has two meanings, there is a surface and something beyond the surface

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Allegory

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8
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This is a word meaning a reference to another literary/artistic/historic work

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Allusion

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9
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Repetition of initial constant sounds

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Alliteration

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10
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Repetition of internal vowel sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of constance sounds at then end of the word

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Consonance

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When a poem is addressed on an object that is not alive, like the wind, sea or even a word like courage

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Apostrophe

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13
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An exaggeration in figurative language for effect of something

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Hyperbole

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Words that sound like sounds, pow, bam, snap

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Onomatopoeia

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15
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Undermines a certain topic, the opposite of a hyperbole

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Understatement

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16
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A group of lines that are together in a poem

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Stanza

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17
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Describes rhythm in a poem, refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable

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Meter

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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables but commonly ten sounds, five words

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Iambic Pentameter

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19
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This is a Iambic Pentameter that does not rhyme

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Blank verse

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20
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Public speaking where someone takes a dramatic pause, a break or pause in speaking

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Caesura

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21
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A poem about the loss of someone or something

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Elegy

22
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This is a two lined poem

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Couplet

23
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This is a four lined poem

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Quatrain

24
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This is a poem with 6 lines

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Sestet

25
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This is a poem with 8 lines

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Octave

26
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A brief comment by an actor that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other actors

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Aside

27
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Poetry without standardized rhyme meter or structure, its not formless but relies on its own words to determine its best form

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Free verse

28
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When one person on stage is talking to him or herself

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Soliloquy

29
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The poet or actor in a play speaks through the voice and personality of another person

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Dramatic Monologue

30
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This is the perspective from which the narrator speaks to us

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Point of View

31
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A poem that tells a story

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Narrative Poetry

32
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When the emotion feeling of thoughts of someone is put into a song

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Lyrical poetry

33
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Descriptive language that helps us see hear smell taste or feel

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Imagery

34
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The environment in which the work takes place

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Setting

35
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The overall meaning we derive from the poem story or essay

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Theme

36
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The structure of the story, the pattern twists and turns the story takes

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Plot

37
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The resolution of the plot in fiction or drama

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Denouement

38
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Minor Themes

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Motif

39
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The difference between expectation and reality, sarcasm

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Verbal Irony

40
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This is when the audience knows more than the character does in a play or movie

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Dramatic Irony

41
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This is what is expected to happen but doesn’t, Dying of thirst on an island

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Situational irony

42
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Not knowning but the use of a word in the wrong way that makes you look stupid

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Malapropism

43
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Comparing two things, a direct comparison

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Metaphor

44
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An announced indirect comparison using Like or As

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Simile

45
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Giving objects people like features

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Personification

46
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Hints and clues of what might happen next in a story or play

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Foreshadowing

47
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Possible truths, internal conflict within a certain effect

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Paradox

48
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An object or action that represents more than itself

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Symbolism

49
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Part of something that stands for a whole, “all hands on deck” “Check out my new wheels”

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Synecdoche

50
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One thing that is represented by another and closely associated with

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Metonymy

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