Literary Terms Flashcards
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Allusion
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a reference to anything famous in a story
2
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Free Verse
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no regular pattern of rhyme
3
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Blank Verse
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no rhyme at all
4
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Sonnet
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14 line, iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme poem
5
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Slant Rhyme
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words that rhyme if you change the pronunciation
6
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Theme
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repeating idea in a book, usually a phrase
7
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Symbol
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word/object that stands for another word/object
8
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Narrative
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a collection of events that tells a story
9
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Imagery
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“mental pictures” that readers experience with a passage
10
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern of rhyme
11
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Quatrain
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a stanza of four lines
12
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Couplet
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two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme
13
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Foreshadowing
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hinting what will occur later in a narrative
14
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Refrain
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A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza that repeat in other stanzas
15
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Epic
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a long narrative poem
