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23 Cards in this Set
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the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author
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persona (speaker)
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a short (unstressed) syllable followed by a long (stressed) syllable
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iambic
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repition of sounds
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rhyme
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broadly defined, any sensory detail in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call an idea or to describe an object
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imagery
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the more or less regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables
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meter
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single line
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verse
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regular, measurable rhythm in the poem;
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meter
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treating an abstraction as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities
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personification
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stops at the end of the line by the rhyme
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endstopped
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repetition of vowel sounds
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assonance
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stops by rhyme and meaning at the end of the line; message complete in two lines
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couplet
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a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, ususally the words like or as to draw the connection
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simile
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sentence doesn't end at line, it carries over to the next line
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emjambent
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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doesn't rhyme, no meter
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free verse
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the beat you hear; may not be the same; repetition of stresses and unstresses
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rhythm
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a reference that suggests the meaning or generalized implication of details in the story, poem, or play
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allusion
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words that have the same beginning; repition of certain sounds
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alliteration
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stanza of four lines
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quatrain
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group of lines; divisions of poems
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stanza
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a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes
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onomatopoeia
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one thing pictures as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them
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metaphor
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stands for more than itself, represents something else
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symbol
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