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28 Cards in this Set
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Couplet |
A grouping of two lines of peotry |
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Lyric |
A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speakers thoughts or feelings. |
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Onomatopoeia |
The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests it's meaning |
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Narrative |
A poem that tells a story |
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Ballad |
A story told in verse and usually meant to be sung |
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Personification |
A figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities |
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Allusion |
A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize and respond to |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech using exaggeration for special effect |
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Elegy |
A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual |
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Parody |
A humorous imitation of a work of literature, art or music |
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Scansion |
The analysis of verse in terms of meter |
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Simile |
A comparison using like or as |
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Quatrain |
A grouping of four lines of poetry |
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Stanza |
A grouping of lines in poetry |
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Tone |
The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject |
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Litotes |
A type of understatement using a double negative |
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Alliteration |
A repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words |
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Synecdoche |
A figure of speech that substitutes a part for the whole |
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Oxymoron |
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contrary ideas or terms |
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Rhyme Scheme |
Pattern of repetition of sounds at the end of lines |
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Assonance |
The rep it ion of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry |
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Epigram |
A brief, clever, pointed remark or observation typically marked by antithesis |
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Sonnet |
A fourteen line poem |
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Free Verse |
A poem with no rhythm or rhyme |
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Imagery |
Words or phrases that create pictures in the reader's mind |
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Ode |
A complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject |
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Paradox |
A statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue |
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Metaphor |
A direct comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar |
