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Tiny LA
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20
Literature
9th Grade
02/09/2011

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Imagery
Definition
words or phrases that create pictures, sounds, smells in the mind of the reader.
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Metaphor/simile
Definition
Direct comparison of a normally unlike objects.
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Symbol
Definition
The thing itself and a much larger and/or more diverse meaning.
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Allusion
Definition
Reference to other sources: Myth, etc
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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of initial consonants
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Meter
Definition
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in some poems
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Free Verse
Definition
No pattern.
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Repetition
Definition
Repeating words or phrases or lines.
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connotation
Definition
The emotional quality of a word house home dog naked.
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Pastoral poem
Definition
A poem dealing with shepherds flocks nature and love and such
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Occasion
Definition
a specific even to which a poem refers or responds
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Tone
Definition
Attitude of the speaker toward the subject
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Stanza
Definition
A division or part of a poem sometimes repeated in the same form.
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Elegy or dirge
Definition
Poem or lament for the dead sometimes composed in elegiac couplets
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Dynamic character
Definition
a character that changes.
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narrative Poem
Definition
tells a story about a person or an event
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Dramatic irony
Definition
a contrast between what the reader knows and the characters dont
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Diction
Definition
patterns in the authors choice of words to convey the tone the character
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Static Character
Definition
a character that stays the same
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Listener
Definition
the one the speaker speaks to in some pomes not necessarily the audience
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