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42 Cards in this Set
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Denotation
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the dictionary definition of a word
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Connotation
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what a word suggests beyond what it expresses (overtones of meaning)
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Imagery
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the representation of sense experience through language
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Figurative language
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language that should not just be taken literally (or should not be taken literally at all)
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Metaphor
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a way of comparing things that are not alike at all - it doesn't have "like, as, than, etc."
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Implied Metaphor
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When the literal term is named and the figurative term is implied
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Simile
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a way of comparing things that are not alike at all - it includes phrases such as "like, as, than, etc."
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Personification
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Giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, object, or concept
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Apostrophe
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Addressing someone absent or dead/something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present/alive and could reply
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Metonymy
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Like a metaphor, but using something very similar to the literal term
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Paradox
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An apparently contradiction that is nevertheless somewhat true
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Overstatement
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Exaggeration to add emphasis to what you really mean
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Understatement
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Saying less than what you mean
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Irony
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When there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is expected
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Verbal irony
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Saying the opposite of what one means
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Dramatic irony
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When there is a discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means (or when there is a difference between what the speaker knows and what the audience knows)
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Allusion
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A reference to something in history or previous literature
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Tone
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The writer's or speaker's attitude towards the subject/reader/himself/herself. Also, the emotional coloring or meaning of the work.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words (Whales work with worms)
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel wounds (deep green sea)
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Consonance
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The repetition of consonant sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like their meaning (e.g. hiss)
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Scansion
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The analysis of a poem's meter by marking stressed and unstressed syllables
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Meter
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A rhythmic pattern in an arrangement of words due to the arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables
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Syllable
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A unit of pronunciation with one vowel sound
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Breve
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The accent used to denote a short vowel sound (the slanty mark)
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Foot/Feet
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A unit of poetry that consists of a certain number of accented and unaccented syllables
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Iamb/Iambic
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A foot of two syllables - unaccented, accented
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Trochee/Trochaic
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A foot of two syllables - accented, unaccented
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Dactyl/Dactylic
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A foot of three syllables - accented, unaccented, unaccented
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Anapest/Anapestic
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A foot of three syllables - unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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Spondee/Spondaic
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A foot of two syllables - accented, accented
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern of rhymes in a poem
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Masculine Rhyme
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A rhyme that occurs in a final stressed syllable
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Feminine Rhyme
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A rhyme that occurs in a final unstressed syllable
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Free Verse
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Poetry that involves lines with no rhyme and no meter
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Blank Verse
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Poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Trimeter
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A line of three (poetic) feet
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Tetrameter
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A line of four (poetic) feet
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Pentameter
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A line of five (poetic) feet
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Iambic pentameter
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Poetry where each line has give feet (iambs), meaning five pairs of "unstressed, stressed"
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Haiku
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Poetry that that does not involve figurative language, usually about some form of nature. There are three lines -- five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables
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