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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
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Allusion
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a reference to something known from literature, history, mythology, religion, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
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Blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Denotation
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the literal, dictionary definition
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Free verse
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poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of a word whose song imitates or suggests its meaning
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Idiom
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an expression that is peculiar to a certain language
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Personification
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a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Pun
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a play on words
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Tone
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the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character
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Connotation
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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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Symbol
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a person, place, thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
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Understatement
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Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect
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Anachronism
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An event or detail in a literary work that is placed outside its proper historical time period
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Metaphor
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words used to compare two fundamentally different things
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Imagery
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language that appeals to the senses
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Couplet
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Simile
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a figure of speech that used the words like, as, than, or resembles to compare things that seem to have little or nothing in common
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