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the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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2
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protagonist’s opponent

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Antagonist

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the recurrence of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables

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Assonance

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a short, simple narrative song

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Ballad

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a major pause within the lines of a poem

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Caesura

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the recurrence of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables

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Consonance

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the manner of speech characteristic of a certain area or class

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Dialect

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originally a poem of solemn meditation; now a formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person or meditating on the subject of death itself

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Elegy

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refers to rhymes at the ends of lines

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End rhyme

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a brief tale with moral point and generally with nonhuman characters

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Fable

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11
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poetry without rhyme or meter

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Free verse

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a standard or category of literature

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Genre

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13
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special type of verbal irony; exaggeration, implies less than what is said

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Hyperbole

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14
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includes partial rhyme and eye rhyme

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Imperfect rhyme

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the expression of one thing in terms of another; the stated or implied equivalence of two things

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Metaphor

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16
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the regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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17
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a contrast exist between the literal and implied levels of meaning of an expression or statement

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Verbal irony

18
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poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular -

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Occasional verse

19
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the attitude of a work toward its subject

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Tone

20
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the use of words that sound like what they mean

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Onomatopoeia

21
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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature

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Theme

22
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a seeming contradiction

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Paradox

23
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an object that stands for something else as well as for itself

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Symbol

24
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usually shows agreement in terminal consonant sounds but disagreements in the preceding vowel sounds: “held,” “build”; may show agreement in the vowel sounds but disagreement in the succeeding consonant sounds: “in,” “trim”

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Partial / Slant Rhyme

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the anticipation created in the reader because of the author’s withholding information about the nature or outcome of a situation while raising the reader’s curiosity or anxiety

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Suspense

26
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required agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward, with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds

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Perfect rhyme

27
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the manner of expression in prose or verse, in written or oral discourse

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Style

28
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random sequence of thoughts and sensations within the mind of the central character

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Stream of consciousness

29
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the giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person

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Personification

30
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A group of lines constituting a section of a poem usually distinguished in print by spacing

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Stanza

31
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a connected series of incidents

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Plot

32
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A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns

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Sonnet

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A stated comparison of two things using a linking word or phrase

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Simile

34
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Narrative perspective; the way a story is told

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Point of view

35
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the chief or main character

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Protagonist

36
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The time and place in which a narrative takes place, or in which an incident within a narrative takes place

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Setting

37
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the creation of a double meaning by the use of homonyms

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Pun

38
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European and American reaction to the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism

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Romanticism

39
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corrective ridule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct and evil by means of ridicule

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Satire

40
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a story with a literal and an implied level of meaning

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Allegory

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