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25 Cards in this Set
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Figurative Language |
Express ideas or feelings in a fresh way |
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Metaphor |
Compare 2 unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
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Simile |
Making comparisons using "like" or "as" |
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Personification |
Attributes human qualities to non-human things |
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Onomatopoeia |
sound imitates meaning |
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Imagery |
Poets use to create word pictures |
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Stanzas |
grouping of lines |
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Couplets |
2 lines |
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Quatrins |
4 lines |
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Sound Devices |
Wording used to create musical quality |
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Rhythm |
Pattern by stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Rhyme |
Repetition of identical sounds in stressed syllables |
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Rhyme Scheme |
Pattern of end rhymes |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonants |
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Repetition |
Use more than once |
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Free Verse |
No set meter of rhyme scheme |
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Narrative |
Writer tells a story in verse |
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Epic |
Long narrative poem about Gods or heroes. |
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Ballad |
Song-like narrative about an adventure or romance. |
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Dramatic |
Writer tells a story using character's own thoughts or feelings. |
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Lyric |
Author expresses feelings of a single speaker. |
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Haiku |
3 un rhymed lines, 5,7, and 5 syllables |
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Sonnet |
14 line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme. |
