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23 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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Ballad
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Song or song-like poem that tells a story.
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Blank verse
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Couplet
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm.
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Epic
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Long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
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Free verse
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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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Haiku
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Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and usually seventeen syllables (five in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third).
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Hyberbole
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Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or creates a comic effect.
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Imagery
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Language that appeals to the senses.
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Lyric poem
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Poetry that expresses a speaker’s emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story.
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Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like, as or than.
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Meter
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A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to an animal, object or idea.
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Poetry
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Type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader’s emotions and imagination.
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Refrain
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Repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines.
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Rhyme
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Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
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Rhythm
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Musical quality in language, produced by repetition.
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as or than.
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Sonnet
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Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
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Stanza
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Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
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Symbol
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Person, place thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character.
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