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30 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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repetition of identical or similar consonants or consonant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of identical or simialr vowel sounds
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dissonance (cacophony)
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sounds are combined to produce an unharmonious or distrubing effect
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didactic
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concerned primarily with instruction
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elegy
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poem lamenting the loss of a beloved or admired person
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dramatic monologue
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the reader hears only the speaker and not those being addressed
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end-stopped line
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a line of poetry whose ending coincides with the ending of a grammatical clause or phrase
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enjambment
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the extending of a grammatical clause or phrase across a line ending
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euphony
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the use of sounds to produce a harmonious or pleasant effect
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foot
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a metrical unit consisting of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables
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free verse
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written without fixed meter, line length, or rhyme scheme
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heroic couplet
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a couplet written in rhyming iambic pentameter lines
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hyperbole
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figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration
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litotes
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understatement
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juxtaposition
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the placement of elements beside or close to each other that usually do not occur together
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lyric
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In ancient Greece, sung to the accompaniment of a lyre; a short outpouring of speaker's thoughts and feelings
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metaphor
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a comparison is establihed without using "like" or "as"
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meter
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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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metonymy
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figure of speech that relates two entities not on the basis of similarity, but on the basis of their close relationship in time or space
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tone
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the overall mood for emotional effect
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octave
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a stanza of eight lines; in an Italian sonnet, the unit formed by the first eight lines
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paradox
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two contradictory ideas that nevertheless are possible
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parody
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an artwork that imitates another artwork in order to mock or discredit it
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pastrol
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evokes a fantasy world of simplicity and perfection populated by sheperds
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pathetic fallacy
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nature is given the characteristics of human emotion
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persona
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the voice speaking a literary work - not the author or poet
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personification
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abstract ideas or nonhuman being or object is given traits of a human being
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quatrain
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a stanza of four lines
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satire
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a technique or work which ridicules its subject or order to provoke change
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sestet
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a stanza of six lines, the six-line unit at the end of an Italian sonnet
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