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12 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of a consonant sound in consecutive words within a line of poetry.
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Alusion
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A reference to a person, event, statement found in literature, the other arts, history, myths, religion or popular culture. Because of the connotations they carry, allusions are used to enrich meaning or broaden the impact of statements.
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Antithesis
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the oppossition of two ideas or elements with in a poem.
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Apostrophe
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address to an absent or imaginary person. Normally dead
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds
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Couplet
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Two successive lines of rhyming verse.
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Euphemism
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an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
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Mood
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This term refers to the general feeling created in the reader by a work at a given point.
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Malapropism
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the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
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Tone
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The attitude (feeling) of a speaker towards his subject.
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Consonance
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The recurrence of similar sounds in close sentences
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Verse
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A line of poetry
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