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42 Cards in this Set
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Allusion
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a casual reference to someone or something in history or literature that creates a mental picture
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Analogy
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the comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other
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Alliteration
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The deliberate repetition of consonant sounds
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Assonance
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Deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
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Ballad
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A form of verse, often a narrative and set to music
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Blank Verse
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Un-rhymed lines of iambic pentameter ( ten syllables with all even numbered syallables accented
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Caesura
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The pausing or stopping within a line of poetry caused by needed punctuation
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Catharsis
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A term in dramatic art that describes the "emotional cleansing" sometimes depicted in a play as occuring for one or more of its characters, as well as the same phenomenon as (as intended) part of the audience's experience.
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Connotation
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The associations that are connected to a word; the implied meaning of a word
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Concrete Poem
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A poem written in the shape of its subject
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Diction
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Poet's distinctive choices in vocab
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Denotation
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The literal definition of a word; the dictionary definition
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Double Entendre
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A figure of speech in which a spoken phrase that is devised to be understood in either 2 ways.Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so:often risque, inappropriate, or ironic
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Echo
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Repetition of key word or idea for effect
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Enjambement
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The continuation of thought from one line of poetry to the next without punctuation needed at the next of the previous line(s)
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Elegy
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A poem of lament (extreme sorrow, such as caused by death)
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Free Verse
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A poem without either a rhyme or a rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be used, just without a pattern
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Haiku
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17 or fewer syllables through which to convey an experience
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for dramatic effect
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Iambic Pentameter:
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Pentameter is a simple penta, which means 5,meters.So a line of poetry written in pentameter has 5 feet,or 5 sets of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Imagery:
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Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.
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Irony:
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The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
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Limerick:
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A kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba).
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Metaphor:
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A comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to another.
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Meter:
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The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Metonymy:
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The substitution of a word for one with which it is closely associated.
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Onomatopoeia:
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"Sounding echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean.
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Oxymoron:
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A seeming contradiction in 2 words put together.
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Paradox:
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Seeming contradicting that surprises by its pithiness.
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Personification:
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Attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies.
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Sonnet:
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A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme.
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Repetition
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The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas.
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Rhyme Scheme
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The sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end sound is represented as the letter "a" the second is "b", etc.
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Rhyming Couplet
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A pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing each one clear thought.
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Rhyme
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Repetition of the same sounds.
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Rhythm
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Internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is real loud.
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Satire
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The use of irony, sarcasm ,ridicule, or like, in exposing , denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
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Simile
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A comparison between two objects using specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".
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Speaker
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The voice in the poem.
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Stanza
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A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.
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Theme
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A topic of discourse or discussion.
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Tone, Mood
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Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem.
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