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12 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.
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Allusion:
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Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize.
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Anapest (anapestic):
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): unstressed unstressed stressed. Also called "galloping meter." Example: 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house/ Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."
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Anaphora
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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.
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Apostrophe
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The addressing of a poem to a real or imagined person who is not present. Example: "Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour /England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters." --William Wordsworth, "London, 1802"
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Assonance
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The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea.
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Ballad
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A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a. Ballads may use refrains. Examples: "Jackaroe," "The Long Black Veil"
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*Blank verse
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: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example: Shakespeare's plays
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Caesura
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A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry.
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Carpe diem poetry
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"seize the day." Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present. Example: Herrick’s "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"; Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
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Consonance
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: the counterpart of assonance; the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow; pressed, passed; sipped, supped. Owen uses this "impure rhyme" to convey the anguish of war and death.
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Couplet
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two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.
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