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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repeating of consonant sounds in words
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Aubade
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When the speaker complains about having to leave his lover at dawn
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Blank Verse
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A line in a poem that is not rhyming and has five stressed and unstressed syllables
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Metonymy
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When an object or item is used in a figure of speech to replace a familiar term
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Connotation
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The different implied meaning of a word
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Couplet
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A pair of rhyming lines
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Denotation
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The suggested definition of a word
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Denouement
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The conclusion of the plot
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Foil
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A minor character that makes the main character seem better than they really are
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Ode
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A long poem that praises to a person or thing
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Quatrain
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A verse that has four lines
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Recognition
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When a character realizes what he/she has to accomplish
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Rising meter
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A line in a poem that moves from an unstressed
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Sestet
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The last six lines of a sonnet
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Sonnet
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A poem that has 14 lines
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Elegy
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A tragic poem about the death of someone
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Epigram
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A short witty poem
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Satire
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A poem that critizes a specific idea using irony
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Irony
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To say something that is the opposite of what you mean
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Trochee
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An unaccented syllable that follows an accented syllable
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