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29 Cards in this Set
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speaker
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a voice in the poem that talks to the reader
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diction
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an author's choice of words and the arrangement of those words in phrases, sentences, or lines of a poem
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denotation
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the literal meaning or dictionary definition
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connotation
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the unspoken or unwritten meanings associated with a word beyond it's dictionary definition or denotation
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figurative language
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language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly
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simile
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a figure of speech usiing like or as to compare or equates two or more things that have something in common
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implied metaphor
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not directly stated
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personification
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attributes human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
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symbol
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an object, person, place or an experience that represents something else, usually something abstract
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rhythm
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the pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
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meter
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a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, which sets the overall rhythm of certain poems
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rhyme
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repitition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in 2 or more words
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end rhyme
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occurs at the ends of lines
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internal rhyme
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occurs within a line of poetry
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onomatopoeia
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use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
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alliteration
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repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
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parallelism
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the use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
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structure
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the orginization of images, ideas, words, and lines through the use of rhythm, rhyme, repetition, or stanzas
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sonnet
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a lyric poem of 14 lines, almost always written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme
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octave
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eight lines of a poem together
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sestet
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6 lines of a poem together
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quatrain
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4 lines put together
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couplet
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2 lines put together
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free verse
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poetry with no fixed pattern or meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement
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tone
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a reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem
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lyric poetry
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expresses the personal thoughts and feelings of the speaker
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narrative poetry
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verse taht tells a story
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dramatic poetry
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1 or more characters who speak to other characters, to themselves, or to the reader
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