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24 Cards in this Set
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idiom
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the personal use of words that marks his or her poetry
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diction
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individual words in a poem
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level of diction
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range of diction from slang ~ formal usage
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poetic diction
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a level of speech somehow refined above ordinary usage and somewhat superior to it.
today used as a way of criticizing a poet's language |
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archaisms
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words that are no longer in common use
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syncope
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dropping of a letter
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denotation
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literal meaning
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connotation
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implied meaning
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coinage or neologism
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word made up by the poet
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paraphrase
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poem into our own words
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syntax
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order of words in a sentence
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inversion
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words that fall out of their expected order
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ellipsis
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words that are consciously omitted by the poet
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etymology
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the study of the sources of words
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concrete diction
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words that can be perceived by the senses
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abstract diction
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words that carry the burden of a poem's overall meaning or theme
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imagery
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sensory details denoting specific physical experiences
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visual
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of sight
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auditory
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of sound
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olfactory
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of smell
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gustatory
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of taste
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imagism
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concrete details predominate in short descriptive poems
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Onomatopoeia
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individual words whose meanings are closely related to their sounds
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pun or paranomasia
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use of one word to imply the additional meaning of a similar-sounding word
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