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Summer Vocab Terms Flashcards

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Allegory

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Story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Anagnorisis

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Discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis

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Antecedent

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Word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces

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Apologue

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Short story with a moral, often involves talking animals or objects; a fable; short allegory

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Apostrophe

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Speaker addresses an inanimate object

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Ballad

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Relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form

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Bildungsroman

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Novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Cacophony

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Deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds

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Caesura

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Pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment

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Canon

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Works of a writer

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Caricature

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Portrait that exaggerates a human trait

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Catharsis

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Emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy

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Clerihew

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Rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line

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Colloquialism

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Informal speech

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Comedy of manners

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Play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things

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Connotation

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Implied meaning of a word

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds within words

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Controlling image

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Metaphor that dominates an entire work

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Couplet

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Rhyming pair of lines

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Dactyl

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Poetic foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed

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Denotation

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Literal meaning of a word, dictionary definition

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Deus ex machina

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Literally “god out of a machine,” sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer

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Diction

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Word choice

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining their feelings, actions, or motives

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Elegy

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Mournful or melancholic poem

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English sonnet

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Sonnet divided into three quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyming scheme “abab cdcd efef gg;” Shakespearean sonnet

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura

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Epigram

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Short, clever poem with a witty train of thought

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Farce

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Extremely broad humor

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Foil

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Character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character’s traits

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Foot

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Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Foreshadowing

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Event or statement that suggests a future event

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Free verse

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Poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern

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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw of a tragic hero

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Hubris

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Excessive pride that leads to a protagonist’s downfall

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement

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Iamb

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Poetic foot with two syllables- first unstressed and second stressed

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Implicit

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Implied meaning; opposite of explicit

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Lyric

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Expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker

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Magical realism

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Combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements

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Metaphor

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Analogy that states one thing is another

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Metonymy

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Use of a part to mean a whole object (I.e. Hands to mean laborers), related to a synecdoche

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Motif

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Recurring or dominant element in a work

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Objectivity

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Impersonal view of events

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Onomatopoeia

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Word that sounds like what it represents

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Opposition

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Contrasting pair of elements

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Paradox

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Seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection

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Parallelism

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Repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect.

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Pastoral

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Work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature

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Peripeteia

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Reversal of fortune or character

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Persona

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Narrator in a non-first-person novel

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Personification

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Giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects

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Protagonist

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Main character

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Quatrain

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Four-line stanza

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Satire

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Genre which ridicules it’s subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change

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Sestina

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Poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (three line stanza), for a total of 39 lines (same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order)

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Simile

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“Weak” metaphor, often uses like or as

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Stanza

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Group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph

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Subjectivity

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Personal view of events

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Subjunctive mood

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Mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e if ___ were ___)

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Symbol

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Word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level

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Synecdoche

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Metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object; related to metonymy

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Synesthesia

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One kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of senses

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Syntax

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Word order

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Theme

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Central idea of a work

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Terza rima

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Poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme “aba bcb cdc”

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Tragic flaw

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Weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall

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