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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 of 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 poem with a serious subject.
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Free Verse
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poem without a set rhyme, rhythm of 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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