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28 Cards in this Set
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Narrative Poetry
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Tells a story or relates a series of events, has a climax
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Lyric Poetry
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Normally short poem, concerned with sharing an experience, not explaining it.
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Dramatic Poetry
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Center on a character who is in conflict with internal or external forces.
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Dramatic Narrative
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Incidents or series of incidents are related by a participant who is affected.
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Dramatic Lyric
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Concerned w/ subjective responses, thoughts, and aspirations.
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Dramatic Monologue
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Spoken by single character, not the poet, directly address other characters.
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Soliloquy
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Audience accepts speaker as honest.
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Allusion
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Reference to widely recognized outside thing or event.
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Simile
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Comparison using "like" or "as"
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metaphor
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States something IS something else
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Analogy
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An extended metaphor
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Metonymy
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the use of one word for another that it suggests. I.e. "a good table" for "good food"
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Synecdoche
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The use of a part for a whole.
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Personification
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Prescribing human-like qualities to inanimate objects or ideas
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Apostrophe
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A direct address to an abstraction or inanimate object
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Tone color
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Attention to the sounds of words separately and in combination.
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Alliteration
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Repetition of identical or nearly identical sounds at the beginnings of two or more adjacent words.
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Assonance
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The close repetition of vowel sounds
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Consonance
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The close repetition of vowel sounds
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Metrical Feet
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Grouping of stresses into traditional patterns
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Blank Verse
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Doesn't rhyme, no recurring stanza pattern, usually five metrical feet and use of iamb
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Free Verse
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recent addition to poetry. Irregular units, no recurring rhyme
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Stanza
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Major unit of thought in poetry. Equal to paragraph in prose
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Stress Prosody
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Rhythmic base in the number of stresses per line regardless of their relation to one another
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Syllabic prosody
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measures flow of sound rather than stresses and depends on number of syllables per line
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Cadence
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Uninterrupted flow of sound.
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Primary Cadence
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Number of syllables in an entire sentence
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Secondary Cadences
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Refer to line lengths and to the speech phrases within the lines
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