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Vocab Flashcards

1
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Paradox

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Has a universal truth, but sounds absurd or contradictory

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Situational irony

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What you think will happen but the opposite happens

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3
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Shift

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A change in mood or tone

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Dramatic irony

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The reader knows something the character doesn’t

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5
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Allegory

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A story with a meaning behind it

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Allusion

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A reference to something without meaning

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Paradox

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Has a universal truth, but sounds obsurd or condradictory.

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Synesthesia

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Mix two senses together to describe something

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration of something

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10
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Anaphora

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Words that are repeated throughout the text, quotes

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Apostrophe

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Something that is mentioned but is not there

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12
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Conciet

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A long extended metaphor

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13
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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration of something

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14
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Euphemism

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A more nicer way of saying something

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15
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Metonomy

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Substitution of that word with a word close to that word

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16
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Antaclasis

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The same word that is used two different ways in a sentence

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17
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Synecdoche

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That substitute word is part of the other word

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18
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Epitet

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A description that describes the quality of someone

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19
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Masculine rhyme

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A single stressed syllable

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Feminine rhyme

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2 syllables, one unstressed

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21
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Ode

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A poem that speaks to exaulting or and enthusiastic

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22
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Alimeric

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A short humorous poem with 5 lines

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Sestete

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Has 6 lines

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Juxtaposition

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A contrast between when you place to concepts in close proximity

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Pathos

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Appeals to emotion

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Logos

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Appeals to logic

27
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Ethics

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Appeals to ethics

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Injament

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When the sentence finishes on another line

29
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Asynetan

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The ommission of conjunctions

30
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Polysydenton

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Stretching the Asyneton

31
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Epitaph

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The writing on a tomb

32
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Elegy

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A funeral song

33
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Epistrophe

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Repetition of words of succeeding clauses

34
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Satire

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Make something funny about something serious

35
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Idyll

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A peaceful calm setting

36
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Scansion

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To determine a meter of a poem by looking at lines and syllables

37
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Ballad

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A poem that tells a story, such as the night before Christmas

38
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Cacophony

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A harsh mixture of sounds

39
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Caesura

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A grammatical break

40
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Epic

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A hero

41
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Ehiasmus

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A phrase followed by the converse of the phrase

42
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Verbal Irony

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Sarcasim

43
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Etymology

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Origin of a word

44
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Diction

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Word choice

45
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Similie

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Using like or as

46
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Metaphor

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Comparison not using like or as

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Rhetorical question

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A question that asks itself

48
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Foot

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a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.”

49
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Antithesis

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

50
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Paralliesm

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Similar sentence structure

51
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Tomswifty

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A pun

52
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Iamb

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unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

53
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Iambic pentameter

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Consists of 10 syllables

54
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Anapest

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consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable

55
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Meter

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basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry

56
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Stanza

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A certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme

57
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Assonance

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the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

58
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consonance

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agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.

59
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Blank Verse

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Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.

60
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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

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