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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/15/2010

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overstatement
Definition
exageration; hyperbole
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diadic poetry
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teach moral lesson
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apostrophe
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address to someone absent or someone who can't hear the speaker
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allegory
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single meaning
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personification
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human characteristics to nonhuman things
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synecdoche
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figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify a whole
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pun
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play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
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literary/contextual symbol
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goes beyond traditional symbols
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controlling metaphors
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comparisons at work throughout an entire poem
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convetnional symbol
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recognize by many
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extended metophor
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part or all of the poem consists of a series of related metaphors or similies
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symbol
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something represents something else
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allusion
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brief cultural reference
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implied metaphor
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comparison is less explicit; instead hints, implies or alludes to the comparison
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carpe diem
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seize the day
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dynamic monologue
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poem: character addresses a silent audience
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metaphor
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makes a comparison with out words like or as
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syntax
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verbal patterns
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ambiguity
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2 or more interpretations of the word
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persona
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speaker created by poet
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simile
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explicit comparion between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, seems
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hyperbole
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very strong exageration
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paradox
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a statement that initially appears to be self-contradicting but turns out to make sense
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figures of speech
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saying one thing in terms of something else
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denotation
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dictionary meaning of the word
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doggeral
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lines whose subject matter is trite and rythm and sound are heavy-hearted
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stock response
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predictable reactions
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narrative poem
Definition
tells us a story
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