8258200540 | Parody | -satirical imitation | 0 | |
8284805283 | Anaphora | -repetiition of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences | 1 | |
8284840910 | Sonnets | -poem of 14 lines -Italian: 8-6 -English/Shakesperean: 4-4-4-2 | 2 | |
8284867144 | Allusion | -reference to something else like bible, literary, mythological | 3 | |
8284881687 | Extended Metaphor | -comparison developed over many lines | 4 | |
8284893489 | Indictment | -formal charge or accusation | 5 | |
8284896482 | Oblique | indirect | 6 | |
8284899646 | Phillistine | uncultured, boorish, tacky | 7 | |
8284903238 | Ostentation | Pretentious | 8 | |
8284906589 | Didactic | -intended to teach -can be preachy | 9 | |
8284911592 | Vacillate | to alternate or waver between different opinions | 10 | |
8284925215 | Sardonic | darkly mocking | 11 | |
8284925216 | Qualify | to restrict or modify | 12 | |
8284929452 | Tone | authors attitude toward the subject | 13 | |
8284934524 | Irony | contrast between expectation and actuality | 14 | |
8284938652 | Syntax | Word order--arrangement of words, phrases, clasues | 15 | |
8284943032 | Diction | word choice | 16 | |
8284946419 | paradox | apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true | 17 | |
8284953350 | Heroic Couplet | 2 lines rhyming iambic pentameter | 18 | |
8284958762 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 19 | |
8284988014 | Free Verse | poem that does not have regular rhyme or meter | 20 | |
8284991775 | Epigraph | quotation or short passage that precedes a work to suggest a theme or concern of the novel | 21 | |
8284998576 | Pastoral | idealized version of country life | 22 | |
8285002345 | Elegy | poetic lament for the dead | 23 | |
8285008693 | Synesthesia | stimulation of sense elicits another -fusion of the two | 24 | |
8285025243 | Epistolary | literary work in the form of letters ex: the color purple | 25 |
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