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18 Cards in this Set
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Anaphora |
repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses ex: I needed my coffee, i needed my sugar, i needed my cream, but all i got was hot chocolate |
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Antithesis |
two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to create a contrasting effect ex: We had everything we needed, but we needed nothing |
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Apostrophe |
when someone is speaking to a person, place or thing that is not there. |
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Assonance |
the repetition of vowel sounds to make an internal rhyming within phrases ex: " Old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage rage against the dying of the night. |
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Chiasmus |
-concepts that are repeated in reverse order. -A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. ex: " i read books and books read me" |
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Euphemism |
The substitution of an inoffensive word for one considered offensively explicit. ex: He's between jobs |
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Litotes |
a figure of speech in which understatement is used with negation to express a positive attribute; a form of irony. ex: Is she pretty? well, she's not ugly. |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is replaced with another that is closely associated. ex: Let's play ball |
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Paradox |
a statement that contradicts itself. ex: spend money to make money. |
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Consonance |
The repetition of consonant sounds.
ex: Dawn goes down when the day is done |
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Allusion |
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, event- real or fictional. ex: stop being such a romeo. |
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What makes up an Iambic pentameter poem? |
-5 iambic feet -10 syllables -2nd syllable in each iamb is stressed
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What is a trochees? |
a foot consisting one long or stressed syllable followed by a short or unstressed syllable. |
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What would you call the rhyme scheme abba abba ? and what would you call the rhyme scheme cde cde? |
abba abba: octane cde cde: sestet |
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What does a shakespearean poem ? |
-always in iambic pentameter -3 part argument and a conclusion |
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Petrarchan |
-Italian - always about love - sometimes iambic |
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What makes up a villanelle |
5 triplets two rhymes throughout first line repeated 6,12,18 ex: do not go gentle in that goodnight |
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Rondeau |
15 lines of 8 or 10 syllables lines go 5,4,6 refrain is repeated in each sentance " In flanders field" |
