E316 Exam 3

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metonymy

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a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Washington," as the capital of the United States, could be used as a metonym for its government.

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personification

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a thing or abstraction is represented as a person

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synesthesia

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he conflation of the senses, such as when we refer to a color as "loud" (mixing sight and sound) or a scent as "sharp"

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assonance

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efrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?"

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stanza

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a unit within a larger poem

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couplet

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is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.

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near rhyme (off rhyme)

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consonance on the final consonants of the words involved

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meter

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regular rhyme

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open form (free verse)

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An open form poem allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a specific meter or rhyme scheme

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line break

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when a line within a poem ceases to extend, and a new line starts

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iambic pentameter

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It describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet".

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iambic tetrameter

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four feet in the line

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sonnet

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poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.