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U.S. Lit
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11th Grade
10/14/2008

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Consonance
Definition
the repetiton of consonant sounds @ the ends of words of accented cyllables
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Blank Verse
Definition
ppoetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Setting
Definition
the time and place of an action
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plot
Definition
sequence of events in a literary work
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foreshadowing
Definition
the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
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symbol
Definition
anything that stands for of reps something else
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folk tale
Definition
stories handed down orally by the common people of a part. culture.
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gothic tail
Definition
reffers to the tail of a primiatve, midevil, ,wild, or mysterous elements in nature.
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classecism
Definition
an approach to litterature and the other arts that stresses reason, balance clarity, ideal beauty in an orderly form in immitation of the acient arts of Greece and Rome
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romanticism
Definition
it was a literary and artistic movement of the 19th century that arrose in reaction against 18th century neoclassicism and placed a premium on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individuality, and exotica
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inference
Definition
any logical or reasonable conclusion based on known facts
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aliteration
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the repetition of similar consonant sounds usually coming at the beinning of a work or accented syllable
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consonance
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the repetition of similar consonant sounds usually coming at the end of a work or accented syllable
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asonance
Definition
the repetition of a vowel sound
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onomatopoeia
Definition
an attempt to rep. a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated w/ it
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rhyme
Definition
when 2 of more words or phrases contain an identical of similar vowel-sound and the consonant sounds that follow the vowel sound are identical.
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rhyme scheme
Definition
the order in which rhymed words recur.
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slant rhyme
Definition
when rhyming words are similar but not exact.
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image
Definition
in poetry, a word or sequence of words that refers to any sensory experience.
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simile
Definition
a comparision fo two unlike things for emphesis, surprise, adn freshness fo language
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mataphor
Definition
like a simile a metaphor is a comparision used for emphesis, surprise, adn fresh languag. a metaphor, however, omits the connective and the result is a statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not
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personification
Definition
a figure of speech is which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is made human--or given human characteristics
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