Literary Terms Flashcards

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foreshadowing

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to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand

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enjambment

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the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to the next

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pastoral

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a work that describes the simple life of country folk who live in a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love; bucolic, idyll

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ode

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a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure, which is often patterned in sets of three

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apostrophe

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an address or invocation to something that is inanimate

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denotation

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a direct and specific meaning, often referred to as the dictionary definition of a word

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antagonist

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any force that is in opposition to the main character

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colloquial

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ordinary language, the vernacular

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theme

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a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the dominant idea or concern of a work

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dialect

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the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people