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17 Cards in this Set
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Terza Rima
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Rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking 3-line rhyme scheme.
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"Acquainted with the NIght"
Robert Frost |
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Eye Rhyme
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A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, like "Love" and "Move".
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"The Last Rose of Summer"
Thomas Moore |
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Villanelle
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A 19-line fixed form w/ 5 tercets rhymed ABA and a final quatrain rhymed ABAA.
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"Do not go Gentle into that Good Night"
Dylan Thomas |
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Enjambment
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The continuation of a sentence w/o a pause in the end of a line, coupled or stanza.
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"It is a Beauteous Evening"
William Wordsworth |
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Anaphora
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Repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines.
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"Sonett #66"
William Shakespeare |
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Caesura
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A speech pause occurring within a line.
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"Mother and Poet"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Epistrophe
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A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else which it is closely associated.
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"The Rebel"
D.J. Enright |
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Anastrophe
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The inversion of the unusual order of words or clauses.
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"Just Because"
Natalie Dorsch |
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Chiasmus
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A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
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"Othello"
William Shakespeare |
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Euphony
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A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds.
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"Ode to Autumn"
John Keats |
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Cacophony
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A harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds.
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"Through the Looking Glass"
Lewis Carol |
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole.
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"The Secret Sharer"
Joseph Conrad |
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Antonomasia
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The identification of a person by an epithet or appellative that is not the persons name.
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" The Bard of Avon"
William Shakespeare |
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Synesthesia
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Presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation.
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"Ode to a Nightingale"
John Keats |
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Litote
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Figure of speech wherein understatement is use to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect.
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"Fire and Ice"
Robert Frost |
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Metonymy
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Figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
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"Out, Out"
Robert Frost |
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Parallelism
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The use of successive verbal construction in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, etc.
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"Community"
John Donne |
