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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Adam is always an awesome asian.
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Blank Verse
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"What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water!" The Ball Poem by John Berryman ten syllables BALL GO |
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Tone
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"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." this obviously has a sarcastic ______.
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Style
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This is an excerpt from a poem by ee cummings. Its is obvious he has a distinct _____. "Along this road i saw a princess pass on her way to meet her lover(it was toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants."
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Free verse
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this is a part of a poem that has no regular pattern. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." |
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Irony
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This says the opposite of what it's trying to say. "My math test was as pleasant as a root canal."
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Ode
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"Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" part of a very LONG, STATELY poem |
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onomatopoeia
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rice crispies makes this sound- snap, crackle, pop RICE CRISPIES
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Hyperbole
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"Your sister is so dumb, she walked by the YMCA and thought they spelled MACY'S wrong" exaggerated much!
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Dactyl
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"Half a League, Half a League, Half a League, onwards"first: stressed syllable , after: 2 unstressed syllables
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epigram
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"Speech is silver, but silence is golden." poem SHORT
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characterization
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The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother, is an example of directThe patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother, is an example of direct ___________
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Epigram
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"Speech is silver, but silence is golden." SHORT, _____ poem
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Complication
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(INTRODUCTION)
This is a man, he has blue hair and likes cupcakes. (_______) The cupcakes make the man fat. The ________ is that the cupcakes make the man fat |
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Recognition
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Mulan ______ her problem when her father is asked to go to war at his
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Understatement
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Saying "It's just a scratch," when there is a huge dent.
Opposite of exaggeration |
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Convention
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traditional aspects of a literary work
chorus in greek tragedy |
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Literal language
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"The dog died" instead of "The dog went to the big farm in the sky."
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Octave
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When I consider how my light is spent/ Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,/ And that one talent which is death to hide/ Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent/ To serve therewith my Maker, and present/ My true account, lest he returning chide,/ "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"/ I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
This has ___ lines so its an _____ |
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Falling meter
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Stressed to unstressed opposite of rising
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