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13 Cards in this Set
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds within words.
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Along the window sill, the lipstick stubs glittered in their steel shells.
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Consonance
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The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words.
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Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
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Alliteration
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This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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She sells seashells down by the seashore
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Stanzas
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A group of lines that form a unit in a poem.
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Rhyme Scheme
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This is the occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words
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A b A b A b C
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Blank Verse
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Consists of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
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Free writen poetry
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Iambic Pentameter
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A metrical pattern of five feet, or units each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed.
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This is an unstressed stressed rhythme, a pattern in the words
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Enjambment
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One line ends without a pause and continues into the next line, hint JAMB.
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the girl down the street likes ice cream her favorite is vanilla
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Meter
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Repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
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Trochee, Iambic
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Iamb
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An unstressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
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If ever man were loved by wife then thee.
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Trochee
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A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers
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Mood
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The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
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sad, mad , confused , happy , amazed , insulted
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Tone
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This is the authors attitude toward his or her subject.
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The authors are usually passionate about there work, the way the author feels
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