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31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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apostrophe
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person or thing absent
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alliteration
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words with the same first letter
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couplet
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stanza of 2 lines
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metaphor
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comparison between 2 actions
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onomatopoeia
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words that imitate sounds
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personification
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inanimate objects given life
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rhyme
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final consonants have the same sounds
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simile
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like or as
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allusion
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reference to another person
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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image
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representations of thoughts
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stanza
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lines that make up the basic units of a poem
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imagery
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creation of images using words
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oxymoron
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2 contradicting expressions
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paradox
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absurd statement
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sestet
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stanza with 6 lines
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symbol
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words or images that mean more
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blank verse
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no rhyme but has a meter
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free verse
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no rhyme and no meter
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ballad
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narrative poem
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dramatic monologue
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performed writing that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker
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elegy
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mournful, melancholic
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epic
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long narrative poem
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epigram
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brief clever and usually memorable statement
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lyric
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a short poem expressing internal and emotional thoughts
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narrative
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poem that tells a story
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ode
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serious sincere poem
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parody
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mocks the subject
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sonnet
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14 lines in iambic pentameter
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italian sonnet
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abba abba cde cde or cdc cdc
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english sonnet
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abab cdcd efef gg
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