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28 Cards in this Set
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Iamb
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Two syllables, unstressed followed by a stressed
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Trochee
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Two syllables, stressed followed by an unstressed
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Anapaest
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Three syllables, stress on the last
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Pyrrhic
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Two syllables, both unstressed
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Dactyl
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Three syllables, stress on the first
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Spondee
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Two syllables, both stressed
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Amphibrach
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Three syllables, one stress in the middle
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Amphimacer
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Three syllables, last one stressed
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Free verse
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Poetry without consistent metrical pattern
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the opening sounds of words
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Eye-rhyme
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Rhymes that are spelled the same, but do not sound the same
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Ear-rhyme
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Genuine rhymes
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Phonaesthesia
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Attribution of common elements of meaning or connotation to certain sound sequences
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Pararhyme
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A half-rhyme with the same consonant patterns, but with different vowels: hall/hell
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Reverse rhyme
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Rhyming on all syllables but the last one: peace/peal
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Consonance
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The repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech using exaggeration, hög som ett hus
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Antithesis
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a figure of speech that uses opposites: först in, sist ut
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within poetry
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Trope
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Wordplay based on the meaning of words
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Conceit
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When a metaphor is extended and explored to the extent it becomes the governing idea of a poem
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Metonomy
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When something associated with an object or idea stands in for the idea itself
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Tenor/vehicle
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T: the object/idea described in a metaphor. V: The object/idea called upon to illuminate that object
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Apostrophe
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A vocalised address within a poem to an inanimate object, abstract concept or absent figure
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Lyric
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A poem with a single speaker expressing thought and emotion
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Elegy
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A poem for the mourning of the dead
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Pastoral
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Classically-influenced poetry that idealises rural life and contrasts it with corruption in the city
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Blank verse
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Poetry with unrhymed iambic pentameter
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