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18 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjecent or closely related words |
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Allusion |
A brief reference a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art |
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Assonance |
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text |
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Ballad |
A story/narrative in poetic form |
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Consonance |
The repetition of constant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text |
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Diction |
The author's specific word of choice |
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Enjambent |
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation abd continues onto the next line |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as" |
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Meter |
The measure arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that sound like what it means |
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Rhythm |
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed |
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Simile |
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words such as "like" or "as" |
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Stanza |
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem |
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Symbol |
An object of action that means something more than its literal meaning |
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Theme |
The centeral meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader |
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Tone |
The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character (humorous, ironic, etc) |
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Verse |
A single line of poetry |
