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23 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of identical consonant sounds ex)pensive poets |
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Allusion |
Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize |
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Apostrophe |
Speaker in a poem addressed s person not present, or an animal, inanimate object or concept as though it were a person |
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Assonance |
Repetition of identical voeel sounds in close proximity ex)deep green sea |
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Blank verse |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Caesura |
A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry |
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Consonance |
Counterpart of assonance ex)shadow, meadow; pressed, passed; sipped supped |
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Couplet |
Two successive rhyming lines |
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Enjambment |
A line having no end punctuation but running over the next line |
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Hyperbole |
Overstatement |
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Litotes |
Understatement |
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Image |
References that cause the mind to fuse together memories of sight, sounds, tastes, smell and touch |
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Internal rhyme |
An exact rhyme within a line of poem ex) once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary |
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Metaphor |
A comparison not using like or as |
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Onomatopoeia |
Buzz slurp, blending of consonant sounds to suggest the activity being described |
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Paradox |
A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true |
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Personification |
Attributing human characteristics to non human things |
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Refrain |
Repeated word or series of words (chorus) |
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Rhyme |
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the end of words |
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Simile |
Comparison using like or as |
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Stanza |
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose |
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Synaesthesia |
Describes one sensory impression in terms of a different sense 'green thought: |
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Syntax |
Word order and sentence structure |
