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17 Cards in this Set
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Terza Rima |
A rhyming versa stanza form that consist of an interlocking tree-line rhyme scheme; A-B-A B-C-B C-D-C D-E-D |
Dantes Inferno |
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Caesura |
A complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition |
"Sing a song of sixpence || a pocket full of rye." |
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Epistrophe |
Repetition of the same words or words at the end of successive phrases |
"The rebel says, no thank you. When everybody says: No thank you, the revels says, yes please!" - The Rebel by DJ Enright |
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Anastrophe |
The inversion or the usual order of words or clauses |
"Do or do not, there is no try." -Yoda |
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Chiasmus |
Two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures; "inverted parallelism" |
"Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love." - Bias (6th Century B.C.) |
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Euphony |
The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of note worthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create |
Ode to Autumn by John Keats |
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Cacophony |
The use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmet odious sounds; opposite of euphony |
Lewis Carroll ' poem "Jabberwocky" in his novel "Through the Looking-Glsss, and What Alice Found There." |
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Synecdoche |
A lit device in which a part of something represents the whole to represent a part |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge |
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Antonimasia |
A figure of speech in which some defining word or phase is substituted for a person's proper name |
"He Who Shall Not be Named" = Voldemort ; "The Bard of Avon" = William Shakespeare |
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Eye rhyme or sight rhyme |
Similarly spelled but don't rhyme |
"God Grandeur" by Gerard Hapkins pg 568 |
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Villanelle |
6 rhyme stances, 2 lines repeated on a prescribed pattern |
"Mod Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath |
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Enjambment |
Continuation if a sentence over more than one line |
"It is a Beauteous Evening" by Wordswarth |
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Anaphora |
Successive phrases ir lines beginning with the same words |
Shakespeares Sonnet No. 66 |
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Synesthesia |
Blending of different senses in description |
"Acbadeam" by Dickinson |
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Litote |
An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by regating it's opposite |
"Fire and Ice" -Frost |
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Metonymy |
Name of a thing is substituted by something else closely related or associated with it |
"Out, out" -Frost |
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Parallelism |
Arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in a similar grammatical or structured way |
"Community" by John Donne |
