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37 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words |
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Allusion |
Reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person or work |
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Antithesis |
Figure of speech characterized by strongly contacting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas |
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Apostrophe |
Someone(usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or non-existent personage is directly addressed as though present |
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Assonance |
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
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Cacophony |
Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones |
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Caesura |
A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, and often greater than the normal pause |
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Consonance |
The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words |
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Couplet |
A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same |
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Diction |
The use of words in a literary work |
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End-stopped |
A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next |
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Extended metaphor |
An implies analogy, of comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem |
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Euphony |
A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. It's opposite is cacophony |
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Figurative language |
Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, irony, and simile. Uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning |
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Hyperbole |
A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
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Imagery |
The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work |
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Irony |
The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning |
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Internal rhyme |
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |
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Lyric poem |
Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expressed thoughts and feelings |
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Metaphor |
A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as", "like", or"than" |
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Metonymy |
The substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. like saying "crown" for a king |
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Narrative poem |
Non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, long or short |
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Onomatopoeia |
Use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. "Buzz", "hiss", or "honk" |
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Oxymoron |
A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression |
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Parallelism |
A similar grammatical structure within a line of lines of poetry |
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Personification |
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
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Pun |
A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
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Refrain |
Group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
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Rhyme |
Close similarly or identity of sound between accented syllables |
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Simile |
Comparison of objects using "like", "as", or "than" |
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Stanza |
A repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme |
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Structure |
The arrangement of material within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work |
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Symbol |
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else |
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Syntax |
Ordering of words into patterns or sentences |
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Understatement |
The opposite of hyperbole. Kind of irony that represents something being much less than it really is |
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Rhythm |
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables |
