Ap English Iv Set 7

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Form

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Overall structure or shape of a work. May refer to a literary type or to patterns of meter, lines, and rhymes. Also may refer to the shape of the poem on the page

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Free Verse/ Open Poem

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Poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. Derives its rhythmic qualities from the repetition of words, phrases, or grammatical structures. Arrangement of words on the printed page or by some other means. Usually doesn't rhyme. Kind of form

Front 3

Hyperbole

Back 3

Boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true. May be used for serious, comic, or ironic effect

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Iambic Pentameter

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Metrical pattern in poetry, five iambic feet per line. One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Image

Back 5

Word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the sense, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smell,s tastes, feelings, or actions. Images offer sensory impressions to the reader and also convey emotions and moods through their verbal pictures.

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as. Subtle and powerful. Can transform people, places, objects, and ideas into whatever the writer imagines them to be.

-Implied- more subtle comparison, terms being compared are not specifically explained. Slip by inattentive readers who are not sensitive to such carefully chosen, highly concentrated language.

-Extended- sustained comparison, part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors

-Controlling- runs through an entire work and determines the form or nature of that work

-Synecdoche- part of something is used to signify the whole. May refer to the whole being used to signify the part.

-Metonymy- something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it