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33 Cards in this Set
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exposition
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the kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information
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figurative language
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language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense
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flashback
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a scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative poem, or a play that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier
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foot
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a unit used to measure the meter of a line of poetry
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foreshadowing
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the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come
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frame story
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a narrative that contains another narrative
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free verse
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unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or an irregular pattern
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Gothic
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a term that describes the use in fiction of grotesque, gloomy settings and mysterious, violent, and supernatural occurrences to create suspense and awe
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haiku
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a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables
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Harlem Renaissance
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a flowering of black writing, art, and music in the 1920s
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech using exaggeration for special effect
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iamb
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a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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iambic pentameter
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the most common verse line in English and American poetry; it consists of five feet, with each foot an iamb
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imagery
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words of phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind
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Imagism
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a movement in American and English poetry begun in 1912 by the American poet Ezra Pound; uses direct concentration on the precise image
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irony
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a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
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verbal irony
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the writer or speaker says one thing but means another
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dramatic irony
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the reader or audience perceives something that a character in the story or play doesn't know
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irony of situation
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the writer shows a discrepancy between the expected result of some action or situation and its actual result
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local color
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the use of specific details describing dialect, dress, customs, and scenery associated with a particular region or section of the country
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lyric
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a poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar
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meter
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a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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metonymy
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a figure of speech in which something very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself
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mood
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the prevailing feeling or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part, through descriptions of setting
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motif
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a recurring feature (such as a name, an image, or a phrase) in a work of literature
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narrative poem
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a poem that tells a story
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Naturalism
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an extreme form of realism in which the character is controlled by his heredity or environment
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octave
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an eight-line poem or stanza
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ode
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a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject
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onomatopoeia
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the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
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oxymoron
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a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms, as in "sweet sorrow," "wise fool," "living death," and "honest thief"
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paradox
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a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be contradictory or untrue
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