Something literal represents something abstract

Poetic lines that continue without punctuation.

Isabella's willingness to lie (Measure)

The audience knows more than the characters.

Ragozine's resemblance to Claudio (Measure for Measure)

"A lovely Apparition, sent/To be a moment's ornmanet" (She Was a Phantom)

Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter

The natural world offers more freedom than the civilized world. (Huck Finn)

"Out of reach were Homer's ghosts" (Passion)

"So sung a little Clod of Clay" (The Clod and the Pebble)

The Duke's proposal to Isabella (Measure)

Apostrophe (lit. term)

"Imagine the drip of it" (Blessing)

Successive lines starting with "For" (She was a Phantom of Delight)

Unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter

The Duke and Cardinal (Duchess)

The Duchess's trust (Duchess of Malfi)

Poem that is fourteen lines about love

"Now it's frozen all year long." (Surplus Value)

"Who made the eyes but I?" (Love iii)

"...vanishing dream-lines" (Eel Tail)

An author's attitude toward a subject

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Symbolism
An author's purpose
The deeper meaning in any text
Something literal represents something abstract
The opposite of expectation
2
Enjambment
A synonym for conjunction (words that bridges ideas)
Poetic lines that continue without punctuation.
Slant rhyme
A pause in the middle of a poetic line.
3
Shift
Poetic change
Tragic flaw
SOAPSTone
Character development
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Situational Irony
The speaker's love for God (Love iii)
Isabella's willingness to lie (Measure)
Sam's attraction to Sophy (The Son's Veto)
The woman's human nature (She was a Phantom of Delight)
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Dramatic Irony
The audience knows more than the characters.
Irony that is dramatic
An unexpected twist
A play's conclusion
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Deus Ex Machina
Ragozine's resemblance to Claudio (Measure for Measure)
Changes from a text to film version
Greek theater allusions
The wax figures of the Duchess's family (Duchess of Malfi)
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Verbal Irony
Syntax
Satire
Sarcasm
Sestet
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Couplet
"The best nation in Europe has fallen/And that is Finland" (The Stars Go)
"She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date." (In the Park)
"A lovely Apparition, sent/To be a moment's ornmanet" (She Was a Phantom)
"What is it to grow old/Is it to lose the glory of the form" (Growing Old)
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Caesura
A five-line stanza
Poetic pause
A form of irony
Historical allusion
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Paradox
Two medical professionals
Two rhyming lines
Contradiction that makes sense
Repeated lines in poetry
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Blank Verse
Fill-in-the-blank prose
Poetry with varying stanza lenghts
Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter
Poetry with no meaning
12
Theme
Justice vs. Mercy (Measure for Measure)
Tradition vs. Modernity (To Da-duh, in Memoriam)
The natural world offers more freedom than the civilized world. (Huck Finn)
Mental Instability (The Yellow Wallpaper)
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Allusion
"The concious moon and stars above..." (Winter Song)
"Out of reach were Homer's ghosts" (Passion)
"She was a Phantom of delight" (She Was a Phantom)
"She is nearly always benign." (The Lost Woman)
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Motif
Mini-theme
A reason to do something
Situational irony
Story in which everything is symbolic
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Personification
The allusion in Measure for Measure
"A machinist, fabricating parts in shops" (Surplus Value)
"...every poet has acquired a lost woman" (The Lost Woman)
"So sung a little Clod of Clay" (The Clod and the Pebble)
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Denouement
Pap's death (Huck Finn)
Jim & Huck's friendship (Huck Finn)
The Duke's proposal to Isabella (Measure)
The Duke's disguie (Measure)
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Apostrophe (lit. term)
A punctuation mark to show possession
"The stars swarmed on behind the trees" (The Road)
"Imagine the drip of it" (Blessing)
"At once a voice arose among the bleak twigs" (The Darkling Thrush)
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Satire
Criticism to evoke change
Humor for its own sake
The literal represents the abstract
Political novel
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Anaphora
Successive lines starting with "For" (She was a Phantom of Delight)
The speakers alternating in "The Clod and the Pebble"
The speaker changing her views on love in "Passion."
The hymnal reference in "Stabat Mater"
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Bildungsroman
A character's tragic flaw
Ancient buildings in Rome
A coming-of-age novel
An unexpected ending
21
Hubris
Comedic Effect
Moral Lesson
Excessive Pride
Exaggeration
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Blank Verse
Poem with no formal structure
Poem with no purpose
Fill-in-the blank poem
Unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter
23
Foil
Mr. and Mrs. Mitra (Real Time)
The Duke and Cardinal (Duchess)
Miss Watson and Jim (Huck Finn)
Helen and Judith (Billennium)
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In Medias Res
The Complaints of Poverty
Who in One Lifetime
an afternoon nap
The Hour is Come
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Hamartia
Isabella's innocence (Measure for Measure)
The Duchess's trust (Duchess of Malfi)
Nu's comic book aspirations (My Greatest Ambition)
The father's fear of aging (Of White Hairs and Cricket)
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Sonnet
Poem from a woman's perspective
Poem that is fourteen lines about love
Poem that is about marriage/weddings
Novel set in a rural environment
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End-Stopped
"you keep looking and looking for those" (Eel Tail)
"Now it's frozen all year long." (Surplus Value)
"Through decades that ran like rivers..." (A Long Journey)
The conclusion of a play.
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Pun
"The nightingale...new she sings" (Description of Spring)
"Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew/And I was unaware" (Thrush)
"Who made the eyes but I?" (Love iii)
"The skin cracks like a pod" (Blessing)
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Metaphor
"With hunger...the children cry" (Complaints of Poverty)
"White sky, over the hemlocks bowed with snow" (Buck in Snow)
"How did she fight?" (The Hour is Come)
"...vanishing dream-lines" (Eel Tail)
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Tone
An author's attitude toward a subject
Sensory Details
The atmosphere an author creates
A reader's feeling from a subject

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