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48 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds across syallables or words. Assonance is a characteristic of poetry.
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Consonance
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Repetition of consonant sounds across syallables or words. Consonance is a characteristic of poetry.
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Figurative Language
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Language used to create a special effect or feeling. Figurative Language goes beyond the literal meanings of the words used. Similie, metaphor, and personification are examples of Figurative Language.
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Hyperbole
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Exageration of the effect.
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Irony (Situational)
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The contrast between what characters or readers might reasonably expect to happen and what actually happens.
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Metaphor
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Comparison of two unlike objects not using like or as.
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Meter
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A poem's rhythm.
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Mood
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The feeling(s) a story gives readers. examples; happy, peaceful, and sad.
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like what they mean. examples; buzz, crackle, and hiss.
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Personification
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A form of figurative language in which an idea, object, or animal is given human characteristics. Example; The rock stubbornly refused to move.
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Repetition
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A figure of speech in which a word, pharase, or idea is repeated for emphasis and effect in a piece of literature.
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Rhyme Scheme
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The similarity of sound at the end of two or more words.
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Rhythm
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The ordered ocurrance of sound in poetry.
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Sensory Language
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Language that appeals to sense, sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
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Similie
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A comparison of two unlike objects using like or as.
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Clerihew
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a light verse form consisting of 2 couplets, the first line usually containing the name of a person.
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Couplet (Rhyming)
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Two succsive lines of verse that rhyme and have the same number meterical peet.
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Free Verse
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Poetry not restricted by the visual connection of metres, rhyme, etc.
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Haiku
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Japaneese verse form consiting of three lines of 5,7,5 syallables respectively
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Quatrain
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A stansa or a poem of four lines.
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Stanza
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A group of lines that are set off to form a division in poetry.
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Tanka
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A japaneese verse form in 5 lines of which the 1st and 3rd line have 5 syallables and the rest have 7.
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Triad
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A group of three stanzas.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds across syallables or words. Assonance is a characteristic of poetry.
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Consonance
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Repetition of consonant sounds across syallables or words. Consonance is a characteristic of poetry.
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Figurative Language
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Language used to create a special effect or feeling. Figurative Language goes beyond the literal meanings of the words used. Similie, metaphor, and personification are examples of Figurative Language.
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Hyperbole
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Exageration of the effect.
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Irony (Situational)
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The contrast between what characters or readers might reasonably expect to happen and what actually happens.
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Metaphor
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Comparison of two unlike objects not using like or as.
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Meter
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A poem's rhythm.
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Mood
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The feeling(s) a story gives readers. examples; happy, peaceful, and sad.
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like what they mean. examples; buzz, crackle, and hiss.
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Personification
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A form of figurative language in which an idea, object, or animal is given human characteristics. Example; The rock stubbornly refused to move.
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Repetition
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A figure of speech in which a word, pharase, or idea is repeated for emphasis and effect in a piece of literature.
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Rhyme Scheme
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The similarity of sound at the end of two or more words.
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Rhythm
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The ordered ocurrance of sound in poetry.
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Sensory Language
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Language that appeals to sense, sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
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Similie
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A compariso of two unlike objects using like or as.
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Clerihew
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A static or comic poem usally in two couplets.
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Couplet (Rhyming)
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Two succsive lines of verse that rhyme and have the same number meterical peet.
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Free Verse
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Poetry not restricted by the visual connection of metres, rhyme, etc.
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Haiku
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Japaneese verse form consiting of three lines of 5,7,5 syallables respectively
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Quatrain
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A stansa or a poem of four lines.
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Stanza
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A group of lines that are set off to form a division in poetry.
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Tanka
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A japaneese verse form in 5 lines of which the 1st and 3rd line have 5 syallables and the rest have 7.
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Triad
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A chord of 3 tones formed of superimpose thirds.
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