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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of intial consonant sounds
Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled |
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rhyme
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the repetition of sounds at the end of a word
"I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree." |
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onomatopoeia
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The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning; buzz, rustle, boom, ticktock, tweek...
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Allusion
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reference to a person or thing outside the poem
I was as innocent as Adam--she, as conniving as Eve |
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assonance
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internal rhyme with different ending sounds
mAd As A hAtter "The bee will see the tree." |
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Metaphor
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A comparision of two things that does not use the words "like" or "as" or "than".
My brother is a speeding train on his way to nowhere. |
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Simile
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A comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as".
"The road was as windy as a piece of ribbon candy." |
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repetition
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repeating words or phrases
"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops fo New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from.... Let freedom ring from..." |
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Personification
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A comparison between a non human with a human (Giving the non human, human characteristics.)
"The daffodils tossed their heads in an energetic dance." |
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which something is exaggerated
I slept for a hundred years in the summer garden. |
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Imagery
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the representation of a particular thing through sensory description.
The spiky hair on his head could have been confused with a plastic patio carpet. |
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Internal rhyme
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When two or more words rhyme within a single line
Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY While I nodded, nearly NAPPING, suddenly there came a TAPPING |
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Rhythm
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The meter or the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star. (every other syllable is stressed.) |
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idiom
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phrases that mean more than their words put together
He kicked the bucket. |
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pun
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a play on words.
I would like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe? (wouldn't you) |
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blank verse
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unrhymed verse with rhythm
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day |
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free verse
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no rhythm but with poetic devices
I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, |
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lyric poetry
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Consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Does not tell story.
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epic
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Epic Poems are long, serious poems that tells the story of a heroic figure.
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Dramatic poetry
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A character is talking or thinking about his own life-- talking through the poem.
DREAM it was in which I found myself. And you that hail me now, then hailed me king, |
