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39 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repeated sounds at the beginning of words
"Going like fat gold" (Morning song) |
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Assonance
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Repeated vowel sounds
"waterproof, shatterproof" (The applicant) |
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Consonance
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Repeated consonant sounds at the end of the words
"moth-breath" (morning song) |
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cacophony
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Harsh or unpleased words
"crunching" (Lady Lazarus) |
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euphony
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musically pleasant sounds (harmonic)
"unwrap" (Lady Lazarus) |
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onomatopeia
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words that sound like their meaning
"Crunching" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Repetition
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Repeated use of specific words
"Soon, soon" (Lady Lazarus) |
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rhyme
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sound alike ending
"The grave cave" (Lady Lazarus) |
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rhythm
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(rythmos = Greek) stressed & unstressed syllables
"I have done it again. One year in every ten" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Allegory
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Representation of a spiritual meaning
"The tulips" (Tulips) |
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Allusion
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reference to a biblical/mythological situation or character
"Herr Lucifer" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Ambiguity
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More than one meanings
"The knocks" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Analogy
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Comparison familiar-unfamiliar
"Hell - Paradise" (Fever 103) |
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Apostrophe
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Addressing that person or thing by name
"Bright as a Nazi lampshade" (Lady Lazarus) |
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cliche
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From overuse has become outdated
"Smiling" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Connotation
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emotional/ psychological implications of a word
"Strip tease" (Lady Lazarus) |
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contrast
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closely arranged things with different characteristics
"I am only thirty [...] times to die" (Lady Lazarus) |
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Denotation
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dictionary definition of a word
"napkin = garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement " (Lady Lazarus) |
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euphenism
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understatement, to lessen another statement
"Them unwrap me hand and foot" (Lady Lazarus) |
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
"The pure gold baby" (Lady Lazarus) |
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irony
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reveal a different reality from what it appears to be
"Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch" (The Applicant) |
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metaphor
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comparison between 2 unlike things
"The frost makes a flower" (Death & Co.) |
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oxymoron
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contradiction of 2 words
"Dead white" (Cut) |
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paradox
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its an unexpected truth but it appears as a lie
"Dead white" (Cut) |
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personification
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human characteristics to an inanimate object
"The vivid tulips eat my oxygen" (Tulips) |
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pun
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words with different meanings have similar sounds
"Starless and fatherless" (Sheep in Fog) |
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simile
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comparison "LIKE" "AS"
"like a fat gold" (Morning song) |
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symbol
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an object with an attached extraordinary meaning
"The suit [...] shatterproof, waterproof" (The Applicant) |
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synocdoche
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indication of an object or a person by letting only a certain part show the whole
"The tulips are too excitable" (Tulips) |
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point of view
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the point in which your are observing a situation from (narrator)
"The vivid tulips eat my oxygen" (Tulips) |
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Line
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a series of words
"The vivid tulips eat my oxygen" (Tulips) |
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stanza
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lines into a unit (division of poem)
"I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby" (Lady Lazarus) |
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rhyme scheme
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patterns in which rhyming occurs
"I have done it again. One year in every ten" (Lady Lazarus) |
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rhetorical question
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a question put just for an effect (no answer to that question)
"Do I terrify?" (Lady Lazarus) |
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enjabment
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continuation of logical sense
"Dying is an art" (Lady Lazarus) |
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form
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the arrangement or the structure of a work
"Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify? -" (Small sentences) (Lady Lazarus) |
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imagery
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use of vivid language to generate ideas or bring mental images
"The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?" (Lady Lazarus) |
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synesthesia
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fusion of different senses that describe one
"The indelible smell of a snuffed candle!" (Fever 103) |
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tone/mood
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the way in which a poet reveals attitudes and feelings
"Love, love the low smokes roll" (Fever 103) |
