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18 Cards in this Set
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Assonance
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Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words
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Conventional Symbol
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A saying or symbol known worldwide
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Enjambment
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A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line
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Euphony
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Attempting to group words together harmoniously, so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound when spoken
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Limerick
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A five-line closed-form poem in which the first two lines consist of anapestic trimeter, which in turn are followed by lines of anapestic dimeter, and a final line in trimeter. They rhyme in an AABBA pattern. Typically, they are used in comic or bawdy verse
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Logopoeia
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Meaning of poems
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Melopoeia
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Musicality and rhythm
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Meter
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A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress
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Ode
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A long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect
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Prose
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Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry
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Quatrain
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Four line stanza
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Slant Rhyme
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Not exactly rhyming, off
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Stanza
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An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem
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Tenor
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Refers to the course of thought, meaning or emotion in anything written or spoken
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Tercet
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A three-line unit or stanza of poetry
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Tone
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The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood
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Vehicle
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Any general method by which an author, poet, or artist accomplishes her purpose
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