Literary Terms 7 Flashcards

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Elegy

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A dignified Keshan poem mourning the death of an individual

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Anticlimax

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The sinking affect created when the reader full of lofty expectations fines only something trivial

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Picaresque

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A narrative depicting the life of a condo or rogue

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Canto

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A subdivision of a long poem corresponding to a chapter in a book

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Restoration Comedy/comedy of manners

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Elaborate, where the comedy set in the aristocratic restoration world

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Mock

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I work in what your travel trivial subject is made ridiculous by being treated with the elaborate and dignified devices of an epic

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Pastoral

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Literature which concerns country life

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Epigram

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A short usually what are you statement, graceful and style and ingenious in thought.

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Periodical essay

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Thoughtful, often satiric, journalism essays originally introduced by Anderson and Steel in their Tatler inspector

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Antithesis

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A pointed juxtaposition of opposite or country elements

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