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53 Cards in this Set
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poem
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anything written in meter
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lyric poem
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a short poem
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speaker
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the person who is speaking in the poem
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audience
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the person to whom the poem is written
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rhetorical situation
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what's going on in the poem
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syntax
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word order
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tone
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the emotional voice of the poem
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image
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anything you get from the poem from your 5 senses
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metaphor
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a comparison
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figure of speech
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when the poet is not speaking literally
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simile
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a metaphor with "like" or "as"
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extended metaphor
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a metaphor spread over several lines
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symbol
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an object that stands for something else
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universal symbol
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a symbol that represents the same thing to everyone
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conventional symbol
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a symbol that means different things to different people in different societies
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literary symbol
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a symbol that means something specifically in that poem
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symbolic action
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what the symbol is doing / what is being done to the symbol
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prosody
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the study of the rhythm of a poem
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rhythm
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the way the poem is read
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meter
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the rhythm of a poem
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scan
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to quickly look over a poem
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rhyme
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repetition of sound in different words
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internal rhyme
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a rhyme within a line
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feminine rhyme
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a two-syllable rhyme
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stanza
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a group of lines
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enjambment
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when a sentence spills over to the next line
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genre
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a type of poem
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subgenre
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within a genre
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dramatic monologue
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a speech taken from within a play
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elegy
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a poem about death (like eulogy)
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occasional poem
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written in response to a specific event
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ode
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a poem in praise of something
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sonnet
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a love poem with 14 lines
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Italian sonnet
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an 8-line stanza and a 6-line stanza
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octave
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8-line stanza
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sestet
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6-line stanza
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English sonnet
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3 4-line stanzas and 1 couplet
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quatrain
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4-line stanza
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couplet
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2-line stanza
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apprendre
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commencer
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à
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continuer
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à
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hésiter
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à
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réussir
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accepter
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arrêter
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cesser
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décider
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essayer
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finir
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oublier
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refuser
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rêver
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