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16 Cards in this Set
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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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Motif |
A recurring idea or image |
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Caesura |
Pause of break in a line of poetry |
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Onomatopoeia |
The use of a word of phrase which has a sound that imitates the sound being referred to |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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Ode |
Poem which has a ceremonial quality is formal and has a complex stanza form |
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Rhyme |
When syllables of words have matching sounds |
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Alliteration |
Repetition on consonant sounds |
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Rhythm |
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Metre |
A regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line |
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Couplet |
A two line stanza |
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Sonnet |
A 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter and uses an established rhyme scheme |
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Enjambment |
Running on of lines |
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Lyric |
Short poem with a single voice and a personal tone |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration in a simile or metaphor |
