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15 Cards in this Set
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Denotation
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The dictionary meaning of a word
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Meter
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Measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse
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Apostrophe
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a direct address of an inanimate object abstract quality or a person not living or present
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synecdoche
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A part substituted for the whole
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Personification
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the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts without a mentor living qualities
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Dramatic irony
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When the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lack
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synesthesia
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An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in the terms of another
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds particularly at the beginning of words
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Allusion
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A reference to the person event or work outside the poem or literary piece
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Closed
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Poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern
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Internal rhyme
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Occurs within a line of poetry rather than at the end
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Couplet
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A pair of lines usually rhymed
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English Shakespearean sonnet
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Based on it probably made popular by Shakespeare with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
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iambic (iamb)
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A metrical foot containing two syllables the first is unstressed while the second is stressed
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Falling meter
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Meter containing metrical feet that move from stressed to unstressed syllables
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