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23 Cards in this Set
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theme
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statement about the poem, centralized or generalized idea of the work
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tone
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attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme
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speaker
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the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of the poem
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allusion
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a reference to some other work that suggests the meaning or implication of details in the story, poem, or play
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setting
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the time and place of the story, peom, or play
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situation
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the context f the literary work's action, what is happening when the story, poem, or play begins
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connotation
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what is suggested by a word, apart from what is explicitly describes
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denotation
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a direct and specific meaning
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metaphor
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an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself, without the use of a verbal signal
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personification
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treating an abstraction as if it were a person by endowing it with human like qualities.
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symbol
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something in a literary work that stands for or represents itself
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enjambment
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running over from one line of poetry to the next without stop
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caesura
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a short pause within a line of poetry
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hyperbole
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an overstatement characterized by exaggerated language
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word order
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the positioning of words in a relation to one another
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iambic pentameter
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a metrical form of in which the basic foot is an iamb and most lines consist of five iambs
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trochaic
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a metrical form in which the basic foot is a trochee
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alliteration
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words
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blank verse
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the verse form most like everyday human speech
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free verse
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poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines.
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sonnet
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a fixed verse from consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter
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stanza
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section of a poem signified by an extra line break, a division governed by thought rather than sound pattern
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myth
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symbolic, persuasive in culture, universally shared and passed through history
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