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20 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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he claps the crag with hooked hands (repeated consonant sounds at the start of words) |
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assonance
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echoing of similar vowel of sounds
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ballad
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a narrative poem.
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blank verse
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verse composed of an indefinite number of unrhymed iambic pentameters
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consonant
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a speech sound which is not a vowel
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couplet
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a pair of lines usually of the same metre which have a common rhyme
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free verse
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poetry which has no regular metre or rhyme pattern as
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image/imagery
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image in poetry are pictures or sense impressions - similes and metaphors are imagery
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irony/ironic
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irony is when a writer suggests a meaning which might be quite different
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metaphor
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a direct comparison of one thing with another without the introductory (like or as)
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mood or tone
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the prevailing sate of mind or feeling of the poem which the writer appears to suggest to the reader and the overall emotional effect it generates
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onomatopoeia
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a word whose sound imitate what is happening (boom, bang, crash and pop)
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personification
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giving human shape or characteristics to something non-human (an animal)
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rhyme
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identity of sound between words
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enjambment
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run-on line of verse occur where the structure and meaning carry the readers eye and ear directly over to the next line without a break.
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simile
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a comparison between two things introduced by the words (like or as)
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stanza
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another word for a verse in poetry
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