"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by DH Lawrence – Flashcards
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opening paragraph describes a family that is....style is....
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anxious about money....fairytale
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pauls technique of picking horses?
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rides rocking horse on a quest until he knows what horse is going to win
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why does paul place bets?
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to be lucky and make money for his mom o they wont be poor and she will be happy
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how does mom react to money from relative?
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wants it all now; greedy
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what happens to paul at end? to mom?
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dies from exhaustion/ she is rich
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theme of story?
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greed destroys
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symbol stands for...and....
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itself and something else
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symbol can be...., ....., ........, or .....
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event, place, idea, or emotion
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rocking horse symbolizes....
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materialism
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horse racing symbolizes....
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parents endless race for material sufficiency
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At the beginning of the story, the mother believes that she does not...
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love her children.
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What is true cause for the family's financial problem?
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An extravagant lifestyle.
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Which character first teaches Paul about horse racing?
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Basset.
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What horse first wins money for the uncle?
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Daffodil.
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What happened the first time the boy asks Bassett to place a bet?
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The horse loses.
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Paul's motivation for seeking luck in the story is
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his desire for his mother's love.
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Initially, how much money is the mother supposed to get on each birthday for five years?
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One thousand pounds.
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When Paul's mother receives the money, Paul is
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devastated (shocked) that his mother is not satisfied.
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Why doesn't Paul want to go to the seaside?
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He doesn't want to miss the Derby.
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What is the one secret he guards from everyone?
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He hears the name of the winning horse while riding his rocking horse.
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What is the boy doing when the mother comes home from the party just before the big race?
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Riding his rocking-horse.
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What happens at the horse race at the end of the story?
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Malabar wins, and the boy makes eighty thousand pounds.
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In "The Rocking Horse Winner" the point of view of the narrator is
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third-person omniscient.
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True or False. The mother blames herself for the family's bad luck.
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False.
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True or False. Although the family needs money, Paul's mother doesn't have a job.
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False.
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True or False. Paul and Oscar arrange to give the mother a gift of five thousand pounds, but the gift only lets her spend more.
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True.
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Who is the author?
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D. H. Lawrence
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Luck
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The woman in the story had all the advantages but no- ? (rocking horse winner)
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There must be more money!
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what was the unspoken phrase? (the rocking horse winner)
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Paul
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What was the boy's name in the rocking horse winner?
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Sansovino
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what was the horse's name last week? (rocking horse winner)
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Bassett
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who was the young gardener?
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Oscar
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What was the uncle's name in the rocking horse winner?
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Richmond Park
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Where did Uncle Oscar take Paul & Basset? (Rocking horse winner)
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England
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Where does the rocking horse winner take place?
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WWI
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What had just happened before the story opens? (rocking horse winner)
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He can predict the winners of horse races
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What power does the rocking horse give Paul?
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a seizure
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Why does Paul fall off the rocking horse?
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he yells Malabar and dies
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What happens when Paul falls off the rocking horse?
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he won 80,000 pounds from the derby but died afterwards
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what was paul's misfortune in the rocking horse winner?
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DH Lawrence
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who wrote the rocking horse winner?
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Cresswell
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What is the family's last name in a rocking horse winner?
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diction
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choice of words used in a literary work
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figurative language
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language that extends the meaningof words
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figure of speech
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an expression that departs from the accepted literal sense or from the normal order of words
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sensory language
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imagery
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scansion
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the analysis of poetic meter in verse lines by displaying stresses, pauses, and rhyme patterns with conventional visual symbols- (figuring out if iamb is anapest, pyrrhic, etc.)
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enjambment
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the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from 1 verse line or couplet to the next w/o a pause
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rhythym
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the pattern of sounds perceived as the recurrence of equivalent beats
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rhyme scheme
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the pattern in which the rhymed line- endings are arranged in a poem or stanza
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refrain
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a line group of lines or part of a line repeated at regular or irregular intervals in a poem
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quatrain
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a verse stanza of 4 lines rhymed or unrhymed
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pyrrhic
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U U unstressed unstressed
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pun
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an expression that achieves emphasis or humor- a joke
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polysyndeton
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a rhetorical term for the repeated use of conjunctions to link together words, clauses, or sentences
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polyptoton
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a figure of speech in which partial repetition arise from the use in close proximity of 2 related words having different forms
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poetry/ verse
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language sung, chanted, spoken, or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes the relationships between words on the basis of sound and sense
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Petrarchan Italian Sonnet
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characteristic of major Italian poet Petrarch- octave rhyming, sestet rhyming 2 quatrain 6 lines abbaabbacdecde
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parallelism
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the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentence, or verse lines in a pairing or other suggesting some correspondence between them
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narrative poem
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a class of poems that tell stories as distinct from dramatic and lyric poetry
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motif
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a situation, incident, idea, image, or character type that is found in many different literary works
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mood
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a feeling, emotional state or dis-position of mind and also the atmosphere or tone
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monometer
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a verse line consisting of one foot
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lyric poem
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any fairly short poem
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limerick
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an english verse form from consisting of 5 anapestic lines rhyming aabba
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internal rhyme
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a poetic device which two or more words rhyme within the same lines of verse
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iambic pentameter
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5 iambs U / U / U / U / U /
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iamb
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U / unstressed stressed
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hexameter
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a metrical verse line of 6 feet
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heptameter
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a metrical verse line composed of 7 feet
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haiku
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a form of Jap lyric verse that has a single impression of a natural object or scene
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free verse
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a kind of poetry that doesn't conform to any regular meter
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extended metaphor
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metaphor that continues through-out the literary work
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dramatic poem
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poetry that employs dramatic form of some element of dramatic technique
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dimeter
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a line verse consisting of 2 feet
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diction
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the choice of words used in a literary work
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denotation
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a words straight-forward dictionary meaning
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dactyl/ dactylic
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/ U U stressed unstressed unstressed
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couplet
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a pair of rhyming verse lines, usually of the same- length widely used in European poetry
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connotation
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the range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its straight forward dictionary meaning
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concrete poetry
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a kind of picture made out of printed type regarded in 50's and 60's, when it was an international vogue, as an experimental form of poetry
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conceit
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an unusually or far-fetched metaphor or simile presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between 2 apparently dissimilar things or feelings
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cinquain
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a verse stanza of 5 lines
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ballad
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a folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner
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allusion
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an indirect or passing reference to some event, person, or place the relevance is not relied on other structure
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anapest/ anapestic
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U U / unstressed unstressed stressed
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anachronism
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the misplacing of any person, thing, custom, or event outside its proper historical time
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accent
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the emphasis placed upon a syllable in pronunciation
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sight
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visual imagery
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touch
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tactile imagery
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sound
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auditory imagery
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taste
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gustatory imagery
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smell
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olfactory imagery
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synaestheia
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a blending or confusion of different kinds of sense- impression, in which one type of sensation is referred in terms more appropriate to another. colors being "loud" or "warm" or "smooth" referring to sound
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same sounds- usually initials or constants of stressed syllables- in any sequence of neighboring words
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onomatopeia
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the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds that they refer to. (whack,fizz, crackle, hiss) or any combination of words in which the sounds gives the impression of echoing the sense
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cacophonous stop sounds
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b, d hard g. hard k, p, t. (example pound; black bug)
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euphonious continuant and glide sounds
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all other consonants w, n, y- because the sound continues
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religious words
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words having to do with religion. examples: holy, Jesus, trinity
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emotion laden words
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words pertaining to love, anger, sadness, gloom, happiness, etc.
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strong verb
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action verbs( such as run, chew, and dance)
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adverbs
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"adverbial stage directions."
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anaphora
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a rhetorical figure of repition in which the same word is repeated in the beggining of a line
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archaic words
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old timey words such as tis, thy, and to anf fro
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paradox
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a statement or expression so suprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true (although some cannot be resolved into truths, remaining self-contradictory.(Example: Everything I say is a lie)
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antithesis
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a contrast or oppisotion, either rhetorical or philosophical
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irony
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a subtly humerous perception of inconsistincy, in which apparently straight forward statement or event is undeterminded by its context as to give it a very different significance.
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ambguity
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openess to different intpertations or an instance in which some use of language may be understood in diverse ways
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double entendre
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a french phrase for 'double meaning' adopted in english to denote a pun in which a word or phrase has a second, usually sexual meaning
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litotes
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understatement;. opposite of hyberbole
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similie
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an explicit comparsion between two different things, actions, or feelings using the words "like" or "as"
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personification
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a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as humans.
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oxymoron
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a figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox; example: bittersweet, livingdeath
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synecdoche
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a common figure of speech by which something is referred to indirectly, either by naming only some part or constituent of it- or less often- by naming some more comprehensive entity of which it is a part.
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metaphor
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the most important and widespread figure of speech, in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another idea, or action so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two.
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metonymy
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a figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closly associated with it
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hyperbole
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exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally
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apostrophe
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a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object.
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juxtapostion
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a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another
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perfect rhyme
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if perfect then draw a positive conclusion
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imperfect rhyme
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if imperfect, then draw a negative conclusion--includes assonance and consonance
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assonance
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the repetion of identical or similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables ( and sometimes in the following unstressed syllables) of neighboring words
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consonance
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the repetion of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different
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blank verse
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very flexible English verse form which can attain rhetorical grandeur while echoing the natural rhythms of speech and allowing smooth enjambment.
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free verse
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a kind of poetry that does not confirm to any regular meter; length of it's line are irregular, and is it use of rhyme if any
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formal rhetorcial substituion
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a trochee or spondee substituted for an iamb in the first two syllables
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punctuation
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!!!! and ????
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enjambment
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the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse lind or couplet to the next without a punucational pause
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end stopped lines
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brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line, coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit
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caesura
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a pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences. usually placed in the middle of the line, but may appear near the beginning or towards the end.
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inversion/altered syntax/anastrophe
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the reversal of the normally expected order of words: or, in, prosody the turning around of a metrical foot
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rhetorical shift
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noticable change in mood- "but" "yet" and "then"
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typography
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way it appears on the page
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types of sentences
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-declarative -imperative -interogative -exclamatory
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syntax
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the way in which words and clauses are ordered and connected so as to form a sentence; or set of grammatical rules governing such word-order.
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asyndeton
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a form of verbal compression which consists of the omisison of connecting words(usually conjunctions) in between clauses
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polysyndeton
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a rhetorical term for the repeated use of conjunctions to link together a sucession of words, clauses or sentences
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meter(iambic)
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the pattern of measured sounds units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse
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repetition of one word
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a word, phrase, or line that recurs in a poem
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act
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a major division in the action of a play, comprising one or more scenes.
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aside
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a short speech or remark spoken by a character in drama, directed either to the audience or to another character, which by convention is supposed to be inaudible to the other characters on stage.
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comic relief
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the interuption of a serious work, specially a tragedy, by a short humorous episode
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drama
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the general term for performances in which actors impersonate the actions and speech of fictional or historical characters for the entertainment of an audience, either on stage or by means of a broadcast; or a particular example of this art.
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dramatic irony
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a sense of detached superiority is achieved, in which the audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does, forseeing an outcome contrary to the character's expressions/expectations and thus ascribing a sharply different sense to some fo the character's own statements.
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foil
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a character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasis those of the protagonist by providing a strong contrast with the.
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heroic couplet
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a rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines
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malapropism
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a confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words
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monologue
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an extended speech uttered by on speaker, either to others or as if alone.
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prologue
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An introductory section of a play, speech, or other literary work; this term is also sometimes applied to the performer who makes an introductory speech in a play.
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scene
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In a dram, a subdivision of an act or of a play not divided into acts, normally representing actions happening in one place at one time, and is marked off from the next scene by a curtain, a black-out, or a brief emptying of the stage.
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soliloquy
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a dramatic speech uttered by one character speaking aloud while along on stage(or while under the impression of being alone)
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stichomythia
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a form of dramatic dialogue in which tow disputing characters answer each other rapidly in alternating single lines, wiht one character's replies balancing(and often partically repeating) the other's utterances.
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tragedy
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a serious play (or, by extension, a novel) representing the disastrous downfall of a central character, the protagonist
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verbal irony
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involves a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant, as in its crude form, sarcasm; for the figures of speech exploiting this discrepancy
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aphorism
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a statement of some general principle, expressed memorably by condensing much wisdom into few words
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characterization
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the representatives of persons in narrative and dramatic works, this may include direct methods like the attributions of qualities in description or commentary, and indirect methods.
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climax
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any moment of great intensity in a literary work, especially in drama
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crisis
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a decisive point in the plot of a play or story, upon which the outcome of the remaining action depends, and which utlimately precipitate the catastrophe or denouement.
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exposition
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the setting forth of a systematic explanation of our argument about an subject; or the opening part of a play or story, when introduced to characters and their situation.
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flashback
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or analepsis, a form of anachrony by which some of the events of a story are related at a point in the narrative after later story- events have already been recounted.
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form
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a critical term with a confusing variety of meanings; can refer to a genre, or to an established pattern of poetic devices or more abstractly , to the structure of unifying principles of design in a given work.
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plot
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the pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work, as selected and arranged both to emphasize cause and effect between incidents and to elicit a particular kind o finterest in the reader or audience, such as suprise or suspect.
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point of view
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the position or vantage-point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us
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style
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any specific way of using language, which is characteristic of an author, school, period, or genre
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symbol
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anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it- usually an idea conventionally associated with it.
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theme
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a salient abstract idea that emerges form a literary work's treatment of its subject matter, or a topic recurring in a number of literary works.
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verisimilitude
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the semblance of truth or reality in literary principle that requires a consistent illusion of truth to life.
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anapest
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a metrical foot made up of two unstresssed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
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couplet
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a pair of rhyming verse lines, usually of the same length; one of the most widely used verse forms in European poetry
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form
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a critical term with a confusing variety of meanings ; can refer to a genre, or to an established pattern of poetic devices, or to the structure r unifying prinicple of design in a given work.
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Shakespearena/English/Elizabethan Sonnet
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comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg
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sonnet
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a lyric poem comprising fourteen rhyming lines of eqaul lenghts
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spondee
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a metrical unit foot consisting of two stressed syllables
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stanza
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a group of verse lines froming a section of a poem and sharing the same structure as all or some of the other sections of the same poem.
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tetrameter
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a verse line of four feet; line of four stressed,usually iambic or trochaic
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tone
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a very vague critical term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work, although in some more restricted uses it refers to the author's attitude to the reader or to the subject-matter
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trimeter
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a verse line of three feet; line of three stresses
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trochee
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a metrical unit (foot) of verse, having one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable / u
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epithet
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an adjective or adjectival phrase used to define a chacterisitc quality or attribute of some person or thing
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in medias res
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the latin phrase meaning "intothe middle of things"
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meter
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the pattern of measured sound units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse
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nonameter
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9 feet
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rhyme
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the identity of sound between syllables or paired groups of syllables, usually at the end of verse lines;
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simile
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an explicit comparsion between tow different thins, actions, or feelings, using the word 'as' or 'like
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liotes
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understatement
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ambiguity
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a contrast or opposition, either rhetorical or philosphical
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assonance
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the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables (and sometimes in the following unstressed syllables) of neighboring words
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yellow
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diction is what color?
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blue
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language is what color?
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green
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imagery is what color?
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red
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structure is what color?
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love her children.
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At the beginning of the story, the mother believes that she does not
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An extravagant lifestyle.
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What is true cause for the family's financial problem?
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Basset.
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Which character first teaches Paul about horse racing?
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Daffodil.
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What horse first wins money for the uncle?
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The horse loses.
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What happened the first time the boy asks Bassett to place a bet?
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his desire for his mother's love.
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Paul's motivation for seeking luck in the story is
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One thousand pounds.
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Initially, how much money is the mother supposed to get on each birthday for five years?
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devastated (shocked) that his mother is not satisfied.
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When Paul's mother receives the money, Paul is
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He doesn't want to miss the Derby.
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Why doesn't Paul want to go to the seaside?
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He hears the name of the winning horse while riding his rocking horse.
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What is the one secret he guards from everyone?
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Riding his rocking-horse.
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What is the boy doing when the mother comes home from the party just before the big race?
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Malabar wins, and the boy makes eighty thousand pounds.
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What happens at the horse race at the end of the story?
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third-person omniscient.
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In "The Rocking Horse Winner" the point of view of the narrator is
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False.
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True or False. The mother blames herself for the family's bad luck.
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False.
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True or False. Although the family needs money, Paul's mother doesn't have a job.
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compel
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v -- , make someone do something, to force or strongly persuade; coerce
