NWEA Vocab #2 Gass & Clupper

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A statement that leads to a logical self-contradiction or contradicts common intuition.

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Paradox

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Attribution of human feelings to inanimate things in literature.

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Pathetic Fallacy

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A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm; unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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metric foot

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Part of a verse with 5 stresses & 10 syllables

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iambic pentameter

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Words with same pronunciation but different meanings & spelling.

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homonym

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Verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.

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Sonnet

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Omniscient means...

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infinitely wise

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Contradict means...

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prove negative; show to be false

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Symbol, term, or behavior pattern used in myths and storytelling across cultures.

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Archetypes

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Fought the captain, rescued the princess, and hit my head in the forest. Example of:

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Second Person.