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42 Cards in this Set
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assonance
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repetition at close intervals of vowel
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cacophony
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harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words
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euphony
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pleasant, easy to articulate words
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sibilance
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hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh
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apostrophe
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someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply
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didactic poetry
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poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching
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dramatic monologue
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character "speaks" through the poem; a character study
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elegy
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poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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understatement
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saying less than one means, for effect
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caesura
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a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation
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synecdoche
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symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board)
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persona
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assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker'
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parallelism
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presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner
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couplet
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two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work
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anaphora
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repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines
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archetype
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a character or personality type found in every society
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masculine rhyme
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final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled)
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internal rhyme
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repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line)
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conceit
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an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor
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metonymy
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symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)
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enjambment
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describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line
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iambic pentameter
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ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables
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feminine rhyme
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latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing)
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Aphorism
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abrupt statement of a principal or truth; a maxim or a short and usually witty saying
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Polysyndeton
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use of conjunctions
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Periodic Sentences
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main idea comes last in the sentence
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Epigraph
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the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints a theme
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Asyndeton
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conjunctions are omitted
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Loose Sentences
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a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units
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Gerund
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noun formed into a verb
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Chiasmus
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first clause in phrase is reversed in the second
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Syllogism
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form of logical reasoning with two premises and a conclusion
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Epigram
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any terse, abrupt, witty or pointed saying
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Synesthesia
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description of one kind of sensation with another
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Antithesis
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opposing and contrasting ideas are balanced against each other
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Epistolary
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novel written in form of a correspondence between 2 characters
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ambiguity
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The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage
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antecedent
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the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
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caricature
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a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics
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homily
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sermon; informally can include serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
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litote
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form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite
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