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94 Cards in this Set
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succession of similar sounding consanant sounds
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alliteration
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reference to a person, place, or event that is assumed the reader knows
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allusion
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anapest
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speaking to an inanimate object
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apostrophe
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deed, dead
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approximate rhyme
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used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and unconcious responses in a reader
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archetypes
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repetition of vowel sounds in multiple words
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assonance
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a genre of poetry that addresses dawn or the coming of dawn-- often sung
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aubade
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song- tells a story
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ballad
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four line stanza alternating 8&6 syllable lines
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ballad stanza
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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harsh sounding words
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cacophony
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pause
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caesura
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poem with a rhyme scheme and meter
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closed form
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implied meaning of a word in a poem
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connotation
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repetition of consonant setters in a line
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consonance
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two line stanza
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couplet
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dactyl
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dictionary meaning of a word
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denotation
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a writers choice of words, phrases, sentence structure, language
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diction
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two feet per line
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dimeter
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author implies a different meaning from that intended by a speaker
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dramatic irony
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song or poem that expresses sorrow usually for someone who has passed
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elegy
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rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses
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end rhyme
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a line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma)
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end-stopped line
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a continuation of thought in several lines of poetry
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enjambment
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an extended narrative poem recounting actions, travelss, adventures and heroic episodes- written in high style
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epic
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a brief pointed witty poem that usually makes a satirical point
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epigram
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good sound- language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear
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euphony
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words that are spelled similarly but sound different
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eye rhyme
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rhyme involving two syllables
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feminine rhyme
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ways of using language that deviate fromt he literal denotative meanign of words in order to suggest additional meaning
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figures of speech
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analyzing poetry of the features of the text itself
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formalism
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poem not based on structure, rhyme, rhythm, used in contemporary poems
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free verse
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a lyric poem- 3 line- 17 syllable 5,7,5 syllable lines- images of nature
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haiku
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two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
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heroic couplet
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over exaggeration
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hyperbole
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/u
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iamb
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10 beats per line five feet (/u) iambs
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iambic pentameter
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aims at clarity of expression though precise visual images
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imagism
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deed, dead
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imperfect rhyme
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rhyme within one line of poetry
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internal rhyme
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contradictory statements or situations that reveall a reality different from what appears to be true
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irony
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originally referring to lines to the accompaniment of the lyre
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lyric
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rhyming of single syllable words
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masculine rhyme
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extended introspective poem on some philosophical or theological theme
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meditation
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comparison between two unline things
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metaphor
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when a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem
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meter
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substitutiong a word for another word closely associated with it
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metonymy
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1 foot per line
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monometer
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tells a long, involved story
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narrative poetry
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deed, dead
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near rhyme
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written for a particular occasion- dedication- birthday
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occasionall poem
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8 feet per line
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octameter
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a poetic stanza of eight lines
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octave
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a lengthy peom that expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style
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ode
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words that are spelled the way they sound
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onomatopoeia
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does not conform to established patterns of meter- rhyme and stanza
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open form
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8 lines- 11 syllables/line- 6 lines rhyme alternately- different for end couplet
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ottava rima
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a poem dealing with lives of shepards or rural life in general
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pastoral
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5 feet per line
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pentameter
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the person created by the author to tell a story
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persona
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giving human qualities to inanimate object
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personification
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a kind of open form poetry that is printed as prose and is opposite of fixed poetry
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prose poem
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pyrrhic
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a 4 line stanza
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quatrain
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a pattern of words that contains similar sounds
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rhyme
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reffer tot he recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
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rhythm
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enjambment
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run on line
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process of measuring the stresses ina line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern
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scansion
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a type of fied form poetry 36 lines- 6 sestets and 3 line concluding stanza envoy
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sestina
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iambic pentameter
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Shakespearean sonnet
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a comparison using line or as
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simile
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spondee
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the author or the person talking in the poem
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speaker
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a unified group of lines
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stanza
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empahsis or accent given a syllable in pronunciation
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stress
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person, object, image, evokes an additional meaning- more absstract
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symbol
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a plot device or used to develop a particular characters internal states
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synesthesia
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3 line stanza
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tercet
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a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three line rhyme scheme
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terza rima
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4 feet per line
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tetrameter
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the writers attitude toward the readers nd the subject
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tone
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3 feet per line
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trimeter
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/u
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trochee
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a form of speech where a lesser expression is used
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understatement
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consists 19 lines divided into 6 stanzas- 5 tercets & a concluding quatrain
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villanelle
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a part that represents a whole
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synecdoche
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a blessing
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James Wright
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the world is too much with us
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William Wordsworth
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
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Adrienne Rich
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Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
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T.S. Eliot
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My Papa's Waltz
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Theodore Roethke
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Traveling Through the Dark
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William Stafford
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