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46 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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the repletion of the same constant sound or sounds of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words in stressed syllables
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assonance
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ryhme in which the same vowels are rymed with difrent constants
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Blank Verse
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unrymed verse in iambic pentameter
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cacophony
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Uses when talking about a harsh sound in disscourse ( harsh sound of cackling)
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cadence
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a rythmetic pattern that in not rytmically structured( used in free verse)
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caesura
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a break or pause in the middle of a verse usually near the middle of a verse (marked by double vertical line)
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conceit
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the use of metahpors in literary charastics
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connotation
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the use or secondary associated meaning of a word expression the second meaing can often be explit
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consonance
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accord or agreement with on another
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controlling image
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a literary device used to show the theme of the poem or story . it often uses the repetion of the word to do so and to show the meaning
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cauplet
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a pair of succesive lines of verse that rhyme and are of the same length
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dirge
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a mournful poem or song to the dead( example she is... by between the trees)
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dissonance
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inharminous or harsh sound(cacophony)
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dramatic monologue
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Is a poem in which a the reader is addressing a single charachter although they speak to the audience used in critical moment
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elergy
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a mournful melancholy poem. its is a said song or poem.. used for the dead same as lament
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enjambent
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the running of the thought of one line, couplet, or stanza or to the next with out a syntical break. ( example: my writting)
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epic
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a long poetic compositon usually centerd upon a hero in which a seris of great achivments is narrated. ( example Homers illiad)
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euphony
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agreebleness of sound; pleasing affect to the ear an harminous sound to one for the compostion of succesion of words.
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foot
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the end part in writting two syllabel line is unstressed
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free verse
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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
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iambic meter
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a foot of two syllabeles a short long quanative meter or unstressed followed by a stressed accental meter
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image
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a figure of speech such as a metahpor or similie
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In medias res
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in or into the middle of sequence of events as in literary narrative
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lyric
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having a form of musical quality spontaneus or with direct feeling
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measure
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the part of the verse that is within a story
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Ode
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an lyric elaborate poem with an intent to be sung
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pentameter
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a line of verse consiting of five measures
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persona
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charachter that is in a play
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quatrain
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a stanza or poem that usually has four lines with usually alternate lines
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refrain
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to keep from the impulse of doing something
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external rhyme
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rhyme at the end of an line
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internal ryhme
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ryhme created by two or more lines in the same word of verse
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femenine ryhmes
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a ryhme where the second of the two is unstressed
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masculine ryhme
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a ryhme with but a single line of stress
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scansion
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the metrical anylasis of verse. the usual for short unaccent syllabel
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sestet
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the last six lines of an italian sonnet
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sonnet
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a poem of one single idea usually in iambic
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English Sonnet
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abba abba
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stanza
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an arrangment of certain numver
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stress
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strong exageration
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volta
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suddern turn in thought towards in poem
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apostrophe
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a poem in reference to someone or something dead
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balance sentence
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a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parrallel in structure
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coherence
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links between underlying ideas and cohernce
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elepsis
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to clarify construction of a word
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inverted sentence
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a piece of literatue in sentence there is down time
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