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45 Cards in this Set
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certain letter, usually the 1st letters, form a word or message relating to the subject
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Acrostic
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repition of sounds, usually consonants, of stressed syllables;slimy snake
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Alliteration
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implied or indirect reference to something assumed to be known, such as a historical event
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Allusion
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relatively close juxtaposition or similar vowell sound but with different consonance; date and fade
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Assonance
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short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four that tell a story, usually a song; last words of 2nd and 4th lines rhyming
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Ballad
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written without rhymes, with a set metrical pattern; english verse
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Blank Verse
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meaning of a word beyond what it explicitly describes; home=security, family, love
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Connotation
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2 lines of poetry with end words that rhyme; shortest stanze form
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Couplet
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literal dictionary meaning of a word
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Denotation
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english form of heroic quatrain; elgiac meter abab
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Elgiac stanza
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rhyme occuring in terminating word or symbol of one line of poetry with that of another line
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End rhyme
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unit of rhyme or meter
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Foot
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a fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification
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Free verse
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a bold overstatement not intended to be taken literally; "I'd give my right arm for that pizza"
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Hyperbole
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to create a image; not only mental but sensation and emotion as well
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Image
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(middle rhyme) a rhyme occuring within a line
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Internal rhyme
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inverson of a normal grammatical word order; single to pair of words moved
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Inversion
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figure of speech in form of an expression
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Irony
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characterized by octave with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba and a sestet rhyming variously bu usually cdecde or cdccd
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Italian sonnet
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figure of speech suggesting a correspondance between the two
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Metaphor
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elaborate metaphor
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Metaphysical conceit
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measure of rythmic quatity
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Meter
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formation/use of words which imitate sounds; whispering, clang
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Onomatopoeia
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speaker or voice of a literary work who is doing the talking
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Persona
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metaphor where human characteristics are used for animals, things; car was "happy" to be washed
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Personafication
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most common stanzaic form; peom/unit/stanza of 4 lines with rhyme scheme of abab
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Quatrain
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a stanza, line, part of a line that is repeated throughout poem
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Refrain
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pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes
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Rhyme scheme
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lines grouped in 3 quatrains with 6 alternating rhymes
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Shakespearean sonnet
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comparing using like or as
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Simile
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14 lines of 5 foot iambic verse
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sonnet
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an image that represents something else; flag=country
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Symbol
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word is contracted by removing one or more letters or syllables; ne'er - never
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syncope
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the way in which words and phrases are arranged to form grammatical structure
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Syntax
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unit/group or 3 lines of verse which are rhymed together or has a rhyme scheme with adjoining tercet
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tercet
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the attitude of the subject
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Tone
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underemphasis in order to acheive greater effect
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Understatement
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