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Alliteration |
The deliberate repetition of initial consonants. |
Barbarous Beauty |
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Allusion |
A reference to persons, places, books , and myths which the reader is supposed to recognize. |
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Hyperbole |
A deliberate exaggeration for dramatic effect. |
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Imagery |
Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or combination of senses |
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Metaphor |
A comparison of two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. |
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Meter |
The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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Onomotopoeia |
The use of words which imitate sounds |
Crash |
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Oxymoron |
A seeming contradiction in two words put togother |
Sad bliss |
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Personification |
Giving human like actions to inanimate objects |
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Repetition |
The act of repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas to prove a point. |
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Rhyme |
The similar ending sounds exsisting between two words. |
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Rhyming couplets |
A pair of lines which end rhy.e expressing one clear thought. |
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Rhyme scheme |
The sequence onnwhuch the rhyme occurs. The firstbsound is represented as the letter 'a' the second is 'b' etc. |
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Rhythm |
An internal beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud. |
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Similie |
A comparison between two objects using like or as or than |
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Stanza |
Two or more lines of a poem in terms of length " the poems paragraph " |
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SIFT method |
SYMBOL IMAGES FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TONE AND THEME |
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Themes in the merchant of venice |
Race, religion, social class, friendship |
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How to title your work |
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Sonnet |
A poem with 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes |
( usually iambic parameter ) |
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Narrative |
A form of poetry that tells a story, the entire story is usually written in metered verse. |
Doesn't have to have a rhyme scheme |
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Lyric |
A poem which expresses personal emotions/ feeling |
Typically written in 1st person |
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Ballad |
A poem/ songs narrating a story in short stanzas |
Typically unknown author/ passed from generation |
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Caesura |
A break between words within a metric foot / pause near the middle of the line. |
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Free Verse |
No definitive rhyme scheme, lines varying in length with no regular beat |
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End rhyme |
Rhyming of the final word in the lines of a poem |
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Internal Rhyme |
Rhyming of 2 words within a line of poetry. |
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Slant rhyme (partial rhyme) |
Two words that do not sound exactly the same but similar |
Ex. I live among the blind, dead,and dumb // ... let me be your parched and swollen tongue. |
