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English 10

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A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature. Cultural experience shared by reader and writer   show
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idea or expression that has become tired from overuse. Sign of a bad writer   show
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associations and implications that go beyond the litteral meaning of a word. positive or negative   show
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the dictionary meaning of a word   show
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explains figurative language. longer than the original work   show
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smooths out figurative language. shorter or longer than the original work   show
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a fictional narrator   show
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The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses and sentences. Poets manipulate it to place emphasis on certain words   show
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The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. Unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. Not the subject   show
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Refers to the way poets sometimes employ an elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time, choosing words for their supposedly inherent poetic qualities   show
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special vocabulary of any professional world   show
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a set phrase constantly said that carries a political or social meaning   show
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special vocabulary of the criminal world   show
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designed to show, entertain, or represent   show
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a type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) adresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some aspect of their temperament or personality   show
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a poem that tells a story   show
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any poem with a rhyme every 2 lines   show
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in poetry, stanza refers to a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme   show
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a 3 line stanza, ABA BCB CDC DED   show
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4 line stanza   show
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5 line stanza   show
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6 line stanza   show
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