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16 Cards in this Set
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Simile
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Acomparison between two unlike things using like or as “her eyes were like thesun”
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as “his eyes were crystal clear blue water.” A metaphor will say one thing IS another.
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Personification
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Giving human-like characteristics to non-human things. “The desks greeted me with a smile as I walked into the classroom.”
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Hyperbole
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Exaggerationfor specific effect. “I told her amillion times I loved her.”
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Imagery
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Writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses: smell, taste, touch, feel, and sight. Example: “The salty popcorn crunched loudly during the quietest scene of the movie, so my mother glared at me.” |
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Symbolism
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Making an object stand for an emotion or idea, example dove = peace; but writers use many more original and/or unique symbols.
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Theme
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As inliterature, an insight into life that is expressed in the poem.
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Tone/Mood |
The feelings that are associated with the poem. The tone/mood may change in various parts of the poem. |
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Meter
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The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as byaccentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line
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Connotation |
The suggestive meaning of a word – the associationsit brings up. The reason it’s not polite to call a mentally-handicapped person“retarded” is that the word has a negative |
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant (b,c,d,f,g,…. all letters that are NOT vowels) sounds at the beginning of words. “She sells sea shells by the seashore.”
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Onomatopoeia
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A word that imitates the word it represents. Such as “crash,” “bang,” and “boom.” Also all animal sounds such as “ribbit,” “meow,” and “moo.”
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Internal rhyme
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A rhyme in the middle of a line of poetry.
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Rhyme Scheme
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A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyminglines in a poem. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate whichlines rhyme. For example abab indicatesa four-line stanza in which the first and third lines rhyme, as do the secondand fourth. Here is an example of this rhyme scheme from To Anthea, Who MayCommand Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick: Bid meto weep, and I will weep, Soundsin orange are marked with the letter A Soundsin purple are marked with the letterB (Technical Tips) |
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Speaker
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The speaker is the voice behind the poem –the person we imagine to be speaking. It’s important to note that the speakeris not the poet. Even if the poem is biographical, you should treat thespeaker as a fictional creation, because the writer is choosing what to sayabout himself. Besides, even poets don’t speak in poetry in their everydaylives – although it would be cool if they did
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Stanza
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A division within a poem where a group of lines areformed into a unit. The word “stanza” comes from the Italian word for “room.”Just like a room, a poetic stanza is set apart on a page by four “walls” ofblank, white space
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