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18 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of a consonant sound
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Assonance
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Repetition of a vowel sound
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Ballad
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A narrative (tells a story), rhyming poem or song about love or tragedy
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Couplet
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Two lines of rhyming poetry
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Epic
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Very long, heroic narrative with a serious subject
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Free Verse
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Poem without a set rhyme, rhythm, or line patterns
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Hyperbole
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Excessive exaggeration for effect
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Line Break
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Where lines of poetry end
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Metaphor
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An implied comparison
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Meter
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Measured rhythm in a line, made of units called feet
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Ode
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A poem of tribute
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Onomatopoeia
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Word that makes the sound it describes
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
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Refrain
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Line or lines repeated in a poem
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Rhyme
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Repetition of sounds at the end of words
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Simile
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A comparison using like or as
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Stanza
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Group of lines of poetry, usually similar in length/pattern
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Symbol
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Something in a poem that stands for something larger than itself
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