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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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In David Kimels poem "life" life is represented by a flight of stairs
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Ballad
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"The Mermaid" by an unknown authors, tells the the story of men out at sea in a song like poem.
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Blank verse
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"The ball poem" by John Berryman is in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Closed Form
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"Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall, is a poem in _________, because it shows consistency in rhyme and line lenght.
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Complication
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In "The Oddyssey" when Odysseus is returning home and he is detoured by Poseidon.
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Connotation
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When the child said that the Tv show was "cool" the grandpa assumed he meant the tv show was cold, he had misunderstood his ______________ of the word.
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Denouement
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When Theseus becomes king and establishes democracy.
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Diction
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"Summer Rain" by Janet Psaila has a very carefree and happy word choice.
"...Pouring from the skies Cooling flesh Freeing the mind Drops of revival Falling from heaven Nourishing life Glory does leaven..." |
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Elegy
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The peom "Foreign Wife" by Yuko Taniguchi "...Her large yellow voice travels
and hits his body, but at least she knows that I am dead, and if I die, I want him to tell my mother..." |
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Epigram
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Short and wise sayings like-
"There is no short cut to experience." |
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Free Verse
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The type of poem we are currently working on in class.
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Iamb
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To (be)/ or (not)/ to (be),/(that) is/ the (ques)- tion
( )-stressed syllable other-unstressed syllables |
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Irony
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When you say " this possibly couldn't get any worse" and it gets worse.
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Literal language
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"Im so hungry i could eat ahorse, literaly."
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Lyric poem
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Joe Fazio's poem "My Song Is You..." deeply expreses feeling.
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Ode
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One John Keats's most famous poem,"Ode to a Nightingale".
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Reversal
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When Odysseus washes up on the shores of Phaecians.
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Sonnet
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"From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease.." -Part of a fourteen line poem by Shakespeare. |
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Subplot
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The secondary quest in which Telemachus goes to find his father, Oddysseus,
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Syntax
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class, write, In, essays, survey, we.
-In survey class we write essays. |
