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| 11951706550 | functions | move the heart and mind of the readers. Literature of knowledge has to teach. Means that literature gives particular values, messages, and themes to the readers. Ex: Persuade, Inform, Entertain | 0 | |
| 11951746372 | symbolic | the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea Ex: The red dress in Mice and Men | 1 | |
| 11951794019 | heed | To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe Ex: He paid it no heed, instead fascinated by the feel of her frame. | 2 | |
| 11951822808 | satire | Using sarcasm or sharp wit to expose human vice or weakness Ex: |  | 3 |
| 11951844678 | euphemistically | by means of a mild or indirect word or expression instead of one considered too harsh or blunt Ex: pre-owned vehicles for used cars | 4 | |
| 11951853675 | pedantically | someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, and minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning Ex: is a person at a party who bores everyone while talking at length about the origin and details of a particular piece of pottery | 5 | |
| 11951875615 | grandiloquently | something with big words used in a overly self assured way. Ex: a selfish and wordy speech by a presidential candidate | 6 | |
| 11951897222 | frugal | economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager Ex: Mr. Krabs |  | 7 |
| 11951926908 | metaphore | is a figure of speech that compares two things by saying one thing is the other thing ex: Life is a journey | 8 | |
| 11951936850 | abstractions | applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional not concrete or tangible. Ex:Truth, liberty, freedom | 9 | |
| 11951942230 | iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable |  | 10 |
| 11951999034 | Blank verse | literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter |  | 11 |
| 11952015351 | Heroic couplet | pair of rhyming lines that express a memorable thought |  | 12 |
| 11952042219 | Terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. Ex: Leaping upward like a spark, Light and fleet-non fleeter!- my poet fled this dirty, dark den of kitchen fetor. | 13 | |
| 11952051001 | Ballad meter | four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three Ex: O mother, mother make my bed. O make it soft and narrow Since my love died for me today, I'll die for him tomorrow | 14 | |
| 11952061709 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter Ex: |  | 15 |
| 11954619666 | contentment | a state of happiness and satisfaction |  | 16 |
| 11954636952 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event Ex: Hercules is an allusion to Karate Kid when Hercules is training. | 17 |
