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27 Cards in this Set
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comparison using "like" or "as"
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simile
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direct comparison
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metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
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extended or controlling metaphor
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a part is used for the whole, specific for general, or the material made for it
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synecdoche
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attribution of personal or human qualities
-a representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or human form |
personification
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poem addressed to an inanimate object or absent person or idea
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apostrophe
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an elaborate and surprising metaphor
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conceit
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closely associated with the thing that represents it
i.e. white house= president |
metonymy
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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
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controlling metaphor
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words that sound like what they mean
"crackle" "bump" "drip" "burble" |
onomatopoeia
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repitition of consonant sounds; anywhere in line
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alliteration
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repitition of vowel sounds
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assonance
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pleasing sound effects
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euphony
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discordant, difficult to hear/pronounce
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cacophony
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rhyme that looks like they rhyme but really sounds nothing alike (bough and cough)
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eye rhyme
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end of line rhyme
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end rhyme
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rhyme within the line
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internal rhyme
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rhyme made on a single stressed syllable (sky/fly)
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masculine rhyme
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also called a double rhyme
-involves two syllables -motion and ocean -willow and billow |
feminine rhyme
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known also as half-rhyme or imperfect rhyme, refers to words that almost rhyme (farm, yard) or appear to the eye to do so (said, paid). Many poets use slant rhyme to introduce an element of the unexpected and prompt their readers to pay closer attention to words themselves rather than the sounds of the words.
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slant rhyme
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A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Approximate rhymes occur occasionally in patterns where most of the rhymes are perfect, and sometimes are used systematically in place of perfect rhyme.
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approximate rhyme
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quatrains with alternating 8/6 syllable count
-Emily Dickinson wrote in this form -"Gilligan's Island" |
ballad stanza
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1. 14 lines and rhyme-schemed
2. 3 quatrains and one couplet |
English/Shakespearean Sonnet
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1. 14 lines and rhyme scheme
2. 8 lined stanza-octave=14 problem, resolution, question |
Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet
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rhymed iambic pentameter
refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine |
heroic couplet
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3 lined stanzas
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tercet
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rhyming 3 lined stanzas
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triplet
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