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U.S. Lit
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English
11th Grade
11/13/2008

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Paradox
Definition
a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents the truth
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Elegy
Definition
a solemn and formal lyric poem about deat, often ont that mourns the passin gof some particular person
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Refrain
Definition
a repeated line or group oflines i a poem or song
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Allegory
Definition
a story of tale w/ 2 or more levels of meaning- a literal level and one or more symbolic levels
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Parable
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a brief story, ushually w/ human characters, that teaches a moral lesson
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Free Verse
Definition
poetry that lacks a reg. rythmical pattern or meter
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Stanza
Definition
a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit
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Rhythm
Definition
the pattern of beats, of
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Catalog
Definition
a list of people, places, or things in a literary work.
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Diction
Definition
a writer's or speaker's word choice
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Parallelism
Definition
the repetition of a gramatical structure.
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Meter
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(of a poem) the rythmical pattern
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Lyric Poem
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a melodic poem that expresses the onsercations and fellingsof a single speaker
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Repetition
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the repeated use of any element of language-a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, a sentance, a grammitical or rythmic pattern
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