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30 Cards in this Set
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Catalog
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A list of things, people, or events.
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Parallel Structure
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The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
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Free Verse
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Poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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Imagery
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The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.
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Coda
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A summing up and restatement of the themes of the entire poem.
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Symbol
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A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience.
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Exact Rhyme
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Occurs when the accented syllables and all following syllables of two or more words share identical sounds, as in the words free and bee or mixture and fixture.
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Slant Rhyme
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A rhyming sound that is not exact.
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
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Pun
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A play on words based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.
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Irony
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In general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality.
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Mood
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The overall emotion created by a work of literature.
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Cadence
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The natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoken.
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Scud
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Windblown mist and low clouds.
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Galls
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Sores.
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Effuse
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Spread out.
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Scruples
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Doubts or misgivings about what is right and what is wrong.
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Circuit
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Indirect path.
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Nectar
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Name for the drink of the Greek and Roman gods; also, a term applied to any delicious beverage.
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Sorest
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Deepest; most extreme.
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Gossamer
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Thin, soft material.
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Cornice
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Molding at the top of a building.
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Bisabuelas
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Great-grandmothers.
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Cafecito
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Little cup of coffee.
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Chismeando
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Gossiping.
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Hieroglyphic
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Picture symbol used in a writing system to represent sounds or words.
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Inebriate
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Drunk.
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Debauchee
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Person who overindulges in pleasures.
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Tippler
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Drinker.
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