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9 Cards in this Set
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Epic Poetry |
tells a long (epic) story of a hero |
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Epic Theme |
all people of all times are connected by their shared experience of life (this was Walt Whitman's theme for his poems) |
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Onomatopoeia |
words that imitate sounds |
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Diction |
word choice |
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Anaphora |
repetition of phrases or sentences with similar structures or meaning |
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Catalogues or lists |
a series of items and things that evokes the infinite range of elements that make up human experience |
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Long Lines |
Whitman used long lines in his poem to express his feelings and ideas better |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that sounds like natural speech instead of having rhyme |
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Transcendentalists |
people who promoted intuitive, spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking based on material things. |
