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17 Cards in this Set
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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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"Don 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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"Sonnet #66" William Shakespeare
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Caesurea
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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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Terza Rima
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rhyming verse stanza form that consist of an interlocking 3 line rhyme scheme; ABA, CBC, DCD, etc.
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"Acquainted with The Night" by Robert Frost
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Eye rhyme or sight rhyme
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A similarity between words, in spelling but not in pronunciation.
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"Last Rose of Summer" Thomas Moore
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Epistrophe
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Is 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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"Gone with the wind" Margret Mitchells
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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" by Natalie Dorsch
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Chiasmus
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A reversal of 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 sound
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"Ode to Autumn" John Keates
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Cacophony
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A harsh discarding and unpleasant sounding combo of words
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"Through the looking glass" Lewis Carol
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Synecdoche
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A part that represents a whole, or a whole that represents a part
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"The secret shower" Joseph Conrad
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Antonomasia
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The identification of a person by a epithet or appellative that is not the persons name
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"The band of Aven" by 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 Nightengale" John Keates
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Litote
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Figure of speech where in understatement is used 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" by Robert Frost
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Metonymy
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Some Significant aspect or detail or an experience is used to represent the whole experience
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"Julias Caesar" William Shakespeare
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Parallelism
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The use of successive verbal instruction in poetry or prose, that corresponds in grammatical structure, sound, meter, etc.
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"Community" John Donne
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