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38 Cards in this Set
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ALLIGORY
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When something referred to in the story is referring to something bigger
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ALLITERATION
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The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose
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ALLUSION
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A brief(and sometimes indirect) reference in a text to a person, place or thing-fictitious or actual outside of the story or play
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APOSTROPHE
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A direct address to someone or something that is inanimate - object or dead person
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ASSONANCE
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The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme
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BALLAD
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A song that tells a story
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BLANK VERSE
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The most common and well-known meter of UNRHYMED poetry in English
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CONCEIT
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A poetic device using ELABORATE COMPARISONS, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world
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CONNOTATION
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An association or additional meaning that a word, image or phrase may carry, apart from it's literal denotation or dictionary definition
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CONSONANCE
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Also called a SLANT RHYME. A kind of rhyme in which th linked words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds, as in reason and raisin
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COUPLET
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A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length
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DENOTATION
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The literal, dictionary meaning of a word
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DOGGEREL
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Verse full of irregularities often due to the poet's incompetence. Crude verse that brims with cliche, obvious rhyme and inept rhythm
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DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
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A poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment
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ELEGY
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written on the occasion of a death or other solemn theme
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END RHYME
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Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them
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EPIC
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A long narrative poem usually tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero
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EXPLICATION
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Literally, an "unfolding". In an explication an entire poem is explained in detail
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FIGURE OF SPEECH
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An expression or comparison that relies not on its literal meaning, but rather on its connotations and suggestions
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FOOT
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The unit of measurement in metrical poetry
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FREE VERSE
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Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter
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HAIKU
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A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
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LIMERICK
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A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba
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METER
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A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse. The basic organizational device for world poetry
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METAPHOR
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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
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METONYMY
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Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
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PARADOX
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A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense
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PERSONIFICATION
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A figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics
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SONNET
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The fixed form of 14 lines. A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry
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SLANT RHYME
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A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter
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SYMBOL
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A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense
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VERSE
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It refers to any single line of poetry
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HYPERBOLE
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Overstatement or exaggeration used to emphasize a point
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REFRAIN
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Repeated lines of poem or song i.e. chorus
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SYNECDOCHE
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The use of a small part for the hole item i.e. wheels = car
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VILLANELLE
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Six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern
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QUATRAIN
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A stanza consisting of four lines
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ONOMATOPOEIA
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A sound associated with a word
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