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32 Cards in this Set
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Argumentative |
Uses logical and analytical techniques |
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Cerebral |
Invites the readers mind to engage with its meaning, intellectual |
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Colloquial |
Everyday conservation, informal |
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Dynamic |
Constant changing |
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Intense |
Passionately emotional |
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Literal |
Without metaphor or exaggeration |
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Lyrical |
Expressing emotions, usually in present tense |
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Personal |
Relating to one's private life and experiences |
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Reflective |
Deeply thoughtful and providing a reflection of something |
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Satiric |
Using irony, sarcasm or ridicule |
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Sensuous |
Appealing to or relating to the senses |
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Visual |
Using imagery |
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Auditory |
Using sounds |
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Tactile |
The sense of touch |
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Olfactory |
The sense of smell |
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Gustatory |
The sense of taste |
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Synesthetic |
One sense provokes another |
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Allusion |
Reference to another text |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration |
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Personification |
Inanimate objects attributed with human qualities |
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Alliteration |
The use of words with the same initial letter in sequence |
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Assonance |
Words with the same vowel sounds but with different consonants |
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Iambic pentameter |
A pattern of five unstressed/stressed beats |
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Onomatopoeia |
Sound in a word inviting a sound in the world |
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Ballad |
Stanza of 4 lines, Second and fourth lines rhyming |
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Couplet |
Two line stanza |
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Dramatic monologue |
A poem narrated by a character |
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Narrative |
A poem that tells a story |
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Ode |
Lyrical celebration of something with standard rhyming and stanzas |
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Quatrain |
Stanza of four lines |
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Sonnet |
A fourteen line poem |
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Tercet |
Stanza of three lines |
