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18 Cards in this Set
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds
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Caesura
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A pause or break in a line of poetry
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Enjambment
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The running on of lines
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Rhythm
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Produced by its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Major forms of poetry
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Blank verse, free verse, lyric, sonnet, ode, monologue, epic
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Blank verse
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Free verse
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Poetry in which the line lengths and patterns of rhyme and rhythm are all irregular
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Lyric
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The most common form of poetry
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Sonnet
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A fourteen-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter and typically in one of a few rhyme schemes
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Ode
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A type of lyric poem often in the form of an address
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Dramatic Monologue
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A longer poem in which the speaker is more strongly characterised and developed
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Epic
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The longest and most narrative-driven form of poetry.
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Simile
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Compares two different things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
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Metaphor
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Describes one thing as if it is another
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Personification
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When a metaphor attributes human qualities to inanimate objects
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Conceit
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A metaphor that relates very different types of things in a way that is unexpected and witty
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Symbol
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An object that ‘stands in’ for another, larger thing.
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