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54 Cards in this Set
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Simile
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A comparison of 2 things using "like, as, than" and "resembles."
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Metaphor
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A direst comparison of 2 unlike things.
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Extended Metaphor
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A metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of work
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Implied Metaphor
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The comparison is hinted at,but not clearly stated.
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Symbolism
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When a person,place,or event that has meaning in itself also represents,or stands for,something else.
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Universal symbol
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A symbol that is recongnized at different times in history and across cultures as having a main meaning
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Diction
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how all words in a poem sound once they are place against one another.
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Speaker
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the person that is speaking in a poem
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Connotation
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suggested meaning of a word
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denotation
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literal meaning of a word
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Irony
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unexpected occurs
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Dramtic Irony
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speaker understands one thing but the audience or other charactor(s)understand something different
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Verbal Irony
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the charactor says or does one thing,but means another.
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Situational Irony
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action is the opposite of what is expected.
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Personification
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give life like qualities to things that are not alive
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Imagery
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Languauge that appeals to the senses
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Poet
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the author of a poem
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Mood or Tone
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The speaker's attitude toward the subject,revealed by the words he or she chooses
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration often used for emphasis
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Litotes
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understatement=basically the opposite of Hyperbole.Often is ironic
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Idiom
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An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.It means something other than what it actually says
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Alussion
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is a reference to something famous
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Literary alussin
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one work of Lit. refers to another work of Lit.
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Historical alussion
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a work of lit. that refers to a historical event
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Biblical Alussion
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a work of lit. that refers to an event of charactor from the bible
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Apostrophe
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An absent person or inanimate object is directly spoken to as through it he was present
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Synecdoche
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a part for the whole or vice versa
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Onomattopoeia
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words that imitate sound they are naming
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Anaphora
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the same words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem
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Alliteration
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Constant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
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Consonance
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Similar to alliteration except the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
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Consonance
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Similar to alliteration except the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
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Assonance
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When the vowel sounds inside words are repeated
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Cacophony
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Occurs when a group of words has a harsh, granting sound
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Euphony
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Occurs when a group of words has a soft,pleasing sound
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Rhythm
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The best created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Created by meter, ryme, alliteration, and refrain
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Meter
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern. When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables for each line.They then repeat the pattern thro out the poem
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Scansion
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The process of marking the material pattern of a poem
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Foot
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unit of meter
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Iambic (foot)
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unstressed,stressed
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pentameter
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five feet on a line
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Inverted word order
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The words of a poem are not in the usual grammatical contruction
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Blank Verse Poetry
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Written lines of iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme
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Free Verse poetry
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No rules to it
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Free Verse poetry
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Free Verse poetry
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Free Verse poetry
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Free Verse poetry
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Free Verse poetry
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