Freshman- English I L3 Final

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a group of lines forming a unit in a poem

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Stanza

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the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers

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Tone

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usually, a stanza or poem of four lines

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Quatrain

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the pattern of rhymes in a poem

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Rhyme scheme

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poetry that tells a story

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Narrative poetry

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poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts of feelings

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Lyric poetry

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a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza

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Refrain

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poetry in which on ore more characters speak

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Dramatic poetry

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a reversal of the usual order of words o achieve some kind of emphasis

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Inversion

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a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung

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Ballad

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the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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language that appeals to any sense or any combination of senses

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Imagery

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any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value

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Symbol

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language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense

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Figurative language

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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

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usually, the humorous use o a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time

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Pun

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verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, where each line usually contains ten syllables and every other syllable is stressed

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Blank verse

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in general, a literary work in which he central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end

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Tragedy

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a speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud

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Soliloquy

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a surrounding influence or environment (not in book, found on Meriam Webster)

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Atmosphere

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a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or n idea is given personality, or described as if it were human

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Personification

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a comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as like, as, than, or resembles

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Simile

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a comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them

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Metaphor

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the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words

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Alliteration

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together

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Assonance