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25 Cards in this Set
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meter |
series of stressed unstressed (of feet) |
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foot/feet |
individual units within a meter |
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iamb |
unstressed/stressed |
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trochee |
stressed/unstressed |
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dactyl |
1 stressed/ 2 stressed |
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Anapest |
2 unstressed/ 1 stressed |
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versification |
putting prose into the verse |
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catalexis |
lines shortened so unstressed syllables are dropped |
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pyrrhic |
2 unstressed syllables |
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spondee |
2 stressed syallables |
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alliteration |
same sound at beginning |
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consonance |
repeated consonants |
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assonance |
repetition of vowel sound |
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onomatopeia |
sounds.. bang crash boom |
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parallelism |
syntactical structure matches |
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chiasmus |
inverted structure within sentence |
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anaphora |
repeats beginning of phrase/clause |
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asyndeton |
no conjunctions |
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polysendeton |
lots of conjunctions |
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amplification |
writer embellishes by adding lots of stuff |
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apsiopesis |
something trails off (...) |
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hypophora |
asks question and then answers it |
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rhetorical question |
question with no answer |
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epithet |
describes person, place, thing that brings our prominent characteristics of thing |
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cataloguing |
creating long lists for rhetoric or poetic effect |
