Words Flashcards

1
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Pause in line of verse

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Caesura

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2
Q

Line lengths and rhyme irregular

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Free verse

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3
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Appearance of word and phrase at the end of one clause then at beginning of another

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Anadiplosis

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4
Q

Flashback

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Analepsis

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5
Q

Flash forward

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Prolepsis

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6
Q

Repetition of word at beginning of successive lines

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Anaphora

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7
Q

Novel that follows protagonist from childhood to adulthood through troubled quest of identity

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Bildungsroman

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8
Q

Speech as a character would say it

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Free indirect style

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9
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Exaggeration in speech that is not meant literally

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Hyperbole

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10
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Where a word is replaced by something closely associated with it (bottle for alcohol)

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Metonymy

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11
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Short saying or statement expressed memorably by considering much wisdom into few words

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Aphorism

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12
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Pretentiously inflated or pompous language

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Fustian

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13
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Literary genre- life as it was

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Realism

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14
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Literary genre- character victim of social force

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Naturalism

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15
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Style- personification and imagery

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Poetic

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16
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Style- moralistic tone

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Essayist

17
Q

Style- mocks values of society

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Satirist

18
Q

Dislikes, despises and strongly prejudices against women

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Misogynistic

19
Q

Another word for sympathy

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Pathos

20
Q

Uncaring

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Callous

21
Q

Novels that attempt to unsettle the reader or make them examine the meaning

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Postmodern

22
Q

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse