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Allegory

A

story where people,things, and events have another meaning

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apostrophe

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address to someone or something not present or unable to respond (except God)

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convention

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standard for particular time period

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didactic

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teaching a moral lesson

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epigram

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short statement using contrast

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grotesque

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characterized by severe distortion of reality

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jargon

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language specific to a field

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lyrical

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songlike, emotional and subjective

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parable

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story with a moral lesson

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parody

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piece that mocks by imitation

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reliability

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how much a reader than trust a character

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soliloquy

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speech where a lone character speaks his or her thoughts aloud

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syllogism

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a form of reasoning where two statements are made and conclusion is drawn from them

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alliteration

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

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ballad meter

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4-line stanzas where 2nd and 4th line rhyme

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dactyl

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metrical foot with stress unstressed unstressed

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end-stopped

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a line with a punctuation that pauses at the end of a line

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free verse

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poetry not in traditional meter but still rhythmical

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hexameter

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a line with 6 feet

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internal rhyme

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rhyme that occurs within a line

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pentameter

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a line with 5 feet

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sonnet

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14 line iambic pentameter poem

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terza rima

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3 line stanza

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antecedent

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noun that a pronoun refers to

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ellipsis

A

omission of words (…)

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modify

A

describe

27
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periodic sentence

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sentence that is complete only at the end

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ambiguity

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unclear with more than one meaning

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connotation

A

implied meaning of a word

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denotation

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actual meaning of a word

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digression

A

going off topic in literature

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euphemism

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using softer sounding words to avoid bluntness

33
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literal

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not figurative

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oxymoron

A

2 word paradox

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paradox

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a statements that seems contradictory but true

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personification

A

use of language that gives nonhumans human characterstics

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rhetorical question

A

question asked for effect

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stereotype

A

conventional pattern

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thesis

A

position a writer proves

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assonance

A

repetition of vowel sounds

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blank verse

A

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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heroic couplet

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2 end-stopped iambic pentameter lines that rhyme

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iamb

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foot with unstressed followed by stressed

44
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onomatopoeia

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words whose sound suggest their meaning

45
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rhyme royal

A

7 line stanza

46
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stanza

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repeated grouping of lines with same meter and rhyme scheme

47
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tetrameter

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a line of four feet

48
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clause

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group of words that contains a subject and its verb

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imperative

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command sentence

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parallel structure

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similar grammatical structure within a sentence of paragraph

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syntax

A

sentence structure

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hyperbole

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overstatement