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38 Cards in this Set
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scansion
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dividing poetry into syllables and then grouping by meter
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foot
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subdivision of a line
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antipenult
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3rd to last syllable
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asyndeton
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not enough connecting words
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meter
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measured in feet
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penult
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2nd to last syllable
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apostrophe
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speaking to something not present or not alive
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spondee
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--
(long long) the last two feet of a line are always spondees |
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parallelism
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order of words is the same
(noun verb adj) (noun verb adjective) |
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chiasmus
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relationship of two pairs of words structurally
(ab ba) |
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hexameter
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a line of poetry with 6 feet
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pentameter
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line of poetry with 5 feet
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Eligiac couplet
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2 line stanzas
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syllabification
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dividing words of a poem into syllables
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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dipthong
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two vowels make one sound
e.g. ae, au, oe |
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blend
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two consonants making one sound
e.g. bl br gr |
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litotes
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understatement
("not bad" as opposed to "good") |
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metaphor
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comparison not using like or as
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Allision
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when a vowel ends a word, and a vowel starts another word, so they are blended during pronunciation(also used when words end un "um")
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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recitatio
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recitation of poetry to public
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dactyl
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-~~
(long short short) |
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onomatopoeia
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word that stands for a sound
(peep) |
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caesura
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natural pause in a line of peotry
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hendiasys
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2 nouns for noun/adjective
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Antithesis
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contrasting ideas in a line of poetry
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assonance
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repetition of a vowel sound in a line of poetry
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alliteration
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words in a line of poetry start withthe same letter/sound
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polysyndeton
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too many connectiong words
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elipsis
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absence of a verb that is understood in a poem (the most common is the verb to be)
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anaphora
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repeptition of words or phrases in a clause
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rhetorical question
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a question that expects no answer
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consonance
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repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry
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repetition
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repeat words for effect
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metonymy
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using a less common word in lieu
of a more common one |
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personification
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giving an inanimate object human characteristics
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synecdote
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using a part to stand for a whole
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