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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   allusion  
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allows for 2 or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation   ambiguity  
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idea or expression that has become tired from overuse. Sign of a bad writer   cliché  
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associations and implications that go beyond the litteral meaning of a word. positive or negative   connotation  
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the dictionary meaning of a word   denotation  
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explains figurative language. longer than the original work   explication  
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smooths out figurative language. shorter or longer than the original work   paraphrase  
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a fictional narrator   persona  
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The voice used by the author to tell a story. May be almost identical to the poet   speaker  
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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   syntax  
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  voice  
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The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style   tone  
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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   theme  
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A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning   diction  
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Plain language of everyday use, and often includes idiomatic expressions, slang, contradictions, and many simple, common words   informal diction  
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maintains correct language usage, but is not the most formal   middle diction  
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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   poetic diction  
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special vocabulary of any professional world   jargon  
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a set phrase constantly said that carries a political or social meaning   cant  
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special vocabulary of the criminal world   argot  
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designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson   didactic  
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designed to show, entertain, or represent   mimetic  
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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   dramatic monologue  
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long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation   epic  
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a type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. 1st person, not necessarily the poet   lyric  
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a poem that tells a story   narrative poem  
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any poem with a rhyme every 2 lines   couplet  
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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   stanza  
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a 3 line stanza, ABA BCB CDC DED   triplet  
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3 lines that rhyme   triplet  
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4 line stanza   quatrain  
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5 line stanza   quintain  
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6 line stanza   sestet  
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8 line stanza   octave  
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