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20 Cards in this Set
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Use of words resembling the sounds they mean
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Onomatopoeia
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A sequence of words
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Line
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Figurative language used to create mental images
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Imagery
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A contradiction of two words put together
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Oxymoron
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A repetition of consonant sounds
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Alliteration
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Feelings or meanings conveyed in a poem
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Tone, mood
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Poetry without regular patter of meter or rhyme
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Free verse
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Exaggeration for dramatic effect
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Hyperbole
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Repetition of same sounds
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Rhyme
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A comparison where one thing becomes another
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Metaphor
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
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Rhythm
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The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
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Meter
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A phrase or verse repeated at intervals throughtout a song or poem
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Refrain
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Comparison using like or as
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Simile
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A division of a poem similar to a paragraph
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Stanza
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A reference to a historical or literary event or person
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Allusion
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The pattern of rhymed words
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Rhyme scheme
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Giving human behaviors to impersonal objects
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Personification
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Duplication of sounds at the end of lines of poetry
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End rhyme
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Comparison where things are explained in other terms
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Figure of speech
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