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20 Cards in this Set
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Repitition of constanant sounds.
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Aliteration
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The repetiotion of vowel sounds foolowed by bifferent constants in two or more stressed syllubals
EX: frayed and wavering |
Assonance
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A song like poem that tell a story, often one dealing with adventure and romace and often features a "refrian."
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Ballad
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Poetry written in un rythmic iambic penthameter lines. (Often used by Shakespeare.)
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Blank Verse
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Repetition of finall constanat sounds in streesed syllables with different vowel sounds.
EX: hat and sit |
Consonance
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A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter.
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Couplet
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Poem in which a character reveals himself or herself by speaking to a silent listener or thinking aloud.
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Dramatic Monologue
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Poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama.
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Dramatic Poetry
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Occurs when rhyming words come at the ends of lines.
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End Rhyme
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A writer speaks or writes of a subject as it were something else. It sustains the comparison for several lines or for the entire poem.
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Extended Metaphor
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Writing or speech not meant to be unterpreted literally. It is often used to create vivid impression by setting up to comparisons between dissimlur things.
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Figureative Language
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Poetry not writen in a regular pattern of a meter or rhyme.
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Free Verse
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Three-line verse form. The first and thrid lines of it each have have 5 syllables and the second has 7 syllables. It seeks to convey a single vivid emotions by means of images form nature.
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Hiaku
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Poem written in highly mussical language that expresses the thoughts, observations, and fealings of a single speaker.
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Lyric Poem
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Figuare of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were somthing else. Unlike a simalie, it does not use the words "like" or "as."
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Metaphor
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Rhythmical pattern of a poem.
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Meter
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A poam that tells a story.
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Narative Poem
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The use of words that imitate sounds.
EX: Whirr, thud, sizzle, hiss. |
Onamatopoia
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A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
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Personification
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One of the three major types of liturature,being prose and drama.
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Poetry
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