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Semester 1 Terms Flashcards

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Cliche

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An expression used so often that it has become hackneyed and has lost its original impact

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Climax

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The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot

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Genre

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Kind or type; the classification of literary works on the basis of their content, form, or technique

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Imagery

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The language used to convey a visual picture

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using like or as to link the vehicle and tenor

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Kenning

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A compound phrase is used in place of a simpler term

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story

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Elegy/Elegiac Tone

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Poem of mourning/mournful tone

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Lyric Poetry

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A melodic poem, expression of personal thoughts and emotions of single, first person speaker

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Didactism

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Instructive, or providing information for a particular purpose

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Allegory

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The concrete presentation of an abstract idea, typically in a narrative

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Caesura

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A pause in the line of poetry

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Epithet

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An adjective or phrase applied to a noun to accentuate a certain characteristic

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Periphrastic Epithet

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An epithet of more than one word

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Point of View

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The vantage point from which a narrative is told

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Prose

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Non-poetic expression

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Prosopopoeia

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Giving a voice to an inanimate object

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Allusion

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An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme, or work

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Voice

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The style of a given author

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Theme

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The statement that a text seems to be making about its subject

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Style

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The way in which a literary work is written

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Tone

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The attitude of the author toward the reader

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Epic

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A long and formal narrative poem that recounts the adventure of a hero

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Litote

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Makes an affirmative point by negating its opposite

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Foreshadowing

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Prepares the reader for future events

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Personification

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Human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman

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Alliteration

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The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words

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Anti-Hero

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A protagonist who does not exhibit the qualities of a traditional hero

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anti-climax

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A rhetorical descent from a higher to lower emotional point

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Chanson de Geste

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epic poems that form the core of the Charlemagne legends (“song of deeds”)

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chivalric romance

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A narrative written and prose or verse and concerned with adventure chivalry and courtly love

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couplet

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two successive lines of rhyming verse, often of the same meter

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figurative language

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language that employs figures of speech

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Refrain

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The phrase line or lines that recur throughout a poem or song

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Laisse

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stanzas in French medieval literature

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stanza

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A section of a poem

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symbol

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something that stands for or suggests something larger or more complex

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medievalism

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influenced by medieval culture

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ballad

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A poem that recounts the story in the form of a song

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rising action

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The part of the drama that follows the insiding moment and preceeds the climax or crisis

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falling action

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The portion of the plot the follows the climax and culminates in a catastrophe

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figure of speech

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literary device involving unusual use of language to associate or compare distinct things

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iambic pentameter

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The most common form of metrical verse in English

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rhyme scheme

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The pattern of rhyme in a poem or stanza

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plot

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The arrangement and interrelation of events in a narrative work

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meter

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The regular rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

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scansion

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The analysis of poetic meter

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Setting

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The combination of place, historical time, and social mileu that provides social background

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conflict

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A confrontation or struggle between opposing forces

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protagonist

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The main character in a work

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synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole or vice versa

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metonymy

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One thing is represented by another that is commonly associated with it

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antagonist

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The character pitted against the protagonist

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concatenation

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The first and last slide of each stanza has a link word

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assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds

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consonance

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The repetition of a final consonant sound

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enjambment

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A political statement that spans more than one line

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quatrain

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stanza containing four lines

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