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32 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Alliteration
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repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
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Blank Verse
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verse without rhyme. Used in iambic pentameter
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Concrete poem
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The shape of the poem matches
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Couplet
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Pair of rhyming lines
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End Rhyme
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rhyme on the end of a line of poetry. it gives you the rhyme scheme.
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Extended Metaphor
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A long comparison, not using like or as.
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Figurative Language/Figures of speech
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Words that are used NOT as the dictionary defines them as.
Ex: "my parents are gonna kill me" |
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Free Verse
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doesn't rhyme but still poetic
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Half rhyme
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vowel sounds the same. consonants not: ex: "pans hams"
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iambic pentameter
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ten- syllable verse, with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables
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imagery
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words or phrases that appeal to the sences. "word pictures"
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internal rhyme
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rhyme within a line of a poem
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literal language
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language or words used as the dictionary defines them as.
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metaphor
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comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as.
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meter
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pattern of rhyme
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narrative poem
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a poem that tells a story because it does. it has a plot, setting, character, and theme -> conflict and climax
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spell it!
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ONOMATOPOEIA
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onomatopoeia
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words that imitate sounds
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prose
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anything that is not poetry.
-textbooks -most of the bible |
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quatrain
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set of four rhyming lines
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refrain
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line/group of lines repeated more than once. ( chorus )
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repetition
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use of a word or phrase more than once in a poem
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhyme in a poem
like... abab abcb acbb |
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rhyme
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measured beats pure lines
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simile
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comparison of two unlike things that uses "like or as"
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sonnet
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fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter
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stanza
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a verse in poem.
stanza is to poetry as paragraph is to prove |
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i wander lonely as a cloud
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ababcc, personification
simile (lonely as a could, continuous as the stars that shines.) |
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there will come soft rain
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alliteration, personification, about war experience, scheme: a's
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sea fever
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repetition: i must go down
alliteration ( ship steer star) |
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annabel lee
what is it about how does it reflect poes life? |
wife died of a lung disease.
last poem he wrote. terrible life...depressed.. alcoholic |
