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33 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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the repition of a consonant sounds in a group of words close together
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Consonants
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allusion
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an inderect referance to a well-known person, place,historical event or work of art
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inderect
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assonance
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repition of a vowel sound
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vowels
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ballad
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a song or songlike poem that tells a story
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song
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ballad stanza
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a quartain in alternate four- and three- stress iambic lines
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4
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blank verse
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verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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not rhyming
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connotation
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the suggested meanings of a word or phrase
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what it means?
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denotation
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the explicit meaning of a word, as listed in a dictionary
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dictionary... meaning
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diction
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a writed coice of words
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"dictate... is to say"
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dramatic poetry
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poetry where more then one character speaks
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2 poeple
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dramatic monologue
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one character speaks
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monolouge
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elegy
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a lyric powem in which only on character speaks
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1 person says
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end ryhme
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end of a virse ryhm
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end
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enjambment
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the running-on of a line
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jamb... oposite of goingg
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epic
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a long narrative poem
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homers epics
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epithet
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a word or phrase added to or subsituted for the name of a person place or thing
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subsitution
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extended metaphor
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a COMPLEX comparison
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COMPLEX
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free verse
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poetry that doesn't have a fixed antyhing
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FREE
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haiku
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5-7-5 came from japan
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5-7-5
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heroic couplet
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2 lines that are written in imabic pentametere which ryhem
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COUPLE
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hyperbole
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a bold overstatement, or the extravagant exaggeration of fact or of possibilty
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ITS RAINING CATS AND DOGS
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INVERSION
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THE REVERSAL OF THE ORDER
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inVERsion, ReVERsal
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irony
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a contrast between what is started and what is really meant or between what is explected to happen and what actually does happen
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contrast
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limerick
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a humouirse 5 lined poem
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limerick.. RICK...LICK... funny
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lyric poetry
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verse....focuses on emoitions or thoughts of the speaker
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lyrics show emotion in a verse
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ode
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LOOOONG lyric poem
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ODE is short.. opposite of what
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paradox
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contradicptry
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contradictory
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parody
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imitation of a peice of literature muic or art
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parady.. = pair.. pairs copy.. imate
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pun
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play on words
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pun = P
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refrain
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one or more phrases repeated usually at end of the poeem
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refrain= train.. trains repeat
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sonnet
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14 lines
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14 lines...
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syntax
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order of words
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synTAX.. has order to do TAXES
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tercet
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3 lines connected by ryhme
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3 lines rhyne
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