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14 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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An extended narrative that carries a seconed meaning along with the surface meaning
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Allusion
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Referencing something from or a litterary work
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Pardox
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A situation or a statement that seems to contridict itself, but at a closer look, it doesnt
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Symbol
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A character, an action, a setting or object representing something else
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Elegy
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A mournful, melancholy, or plantive
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Motif
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Any reoccuring element in a story that has symbolic signifignce
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Kennning
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A noun is renamed in a creative way using a compound word or union of words to combine ideas
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Theme
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Essential idea, group of ideas, or phislophy that the writer wants the reader to uderstand from the story they are writing, universal meaning relates to human condition.
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Ballad
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A poem thattells a story to be sung, folk origin, romantic
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Sonnet
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Expresses a single, complete thought, idea or sentiment
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Dramatic Monolouge
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When a single character reveals themselves to the audience during a dramatic scene
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech in which someone dead or something as if it were a living thing.
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Conceit
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Elaborate, farfetched image which extends a metaphor
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Epic
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A long poetic composition usually centered upon a hero, in which a seris of great acheivments.
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