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20 Cards in this Set
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Quatrain |
A four line stanza |
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Imagery |
An appeal to the sense of sight, taste, touch, sound or smell |
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Metaphor |
A comparison between two unlike things |
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Enjambment |
The flow of a poem unmarked by punctuation for pause |
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Simile |
Comparing two unlike things using like or as |
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Allusion |
References to other literary words, cultural ideas, Biblical or mythological figures. |
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Reader |
The person reading the poem |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that is unrhymed |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of initial sounds of words. |
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Tone |
The mood of the poem and/or the attitude of the author toward his/her subject |
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Stanza |
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph |
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Diction |
Words that seem significant or are repeated. Words that in testify meaning |
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Onomatopoeia |
When a word sounds like what it means. BOOM. |
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Couplet |
Two lines of poetry that rhyme |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to a non human thing |
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Speaker |
The voice of the poem - don't assume it's the poet! |
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External rhyme pattern |
Words that rhyme on the outside edge of the poem. The last syllable in the last word of each line in a stanza |
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Half/Slant rhyme |
When lines, "kind of rhyme" |
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Caesura |
The use of punctuation to mark the pauses in a poem |
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Juxtapose |
To place unlikely or opposing items together |
