S-z Terms Flashcards

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Narrative mode or device that depicts the numerous thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind

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Stream of consciousness

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Secondary plot in a play, novel, or similar work

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Subplot

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A technique used by writers to expose foolishness or corruption.

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Satire

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The strong connection or link between two of the senses. Describing.

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Synesthesia

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Sonnet form that has three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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System of signs and significance that help under see the underlying principle of the human culture. The signs are only understood when in relation to other signs

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Structuralism

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Arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language

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Syntax

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Rhetorical device that starts with an argument with a reference to something general and draws conclusion to something more specific.

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Syllogism

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Italian form of poetry, stanzas of three lines, called tercets. Iambic pentameter. Interlocking rhyme scheme.

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Terza Rima

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An illusionary place that projects will be notion of a perfect society to the reader. An area with perfect and unrealistic morals

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Utopian Novel

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Literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century.

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Transcendentalism

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When a character talks to themselves. Used to reveal information to the audience.

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Soliloquy

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An underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation; reading between the lines.

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Subtext

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Analyzing a poem visually to pick out the stressed and unstressed syllables also it’s metrical foot.

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Scansion

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