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19 Cards in this Set
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A story told in verse
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narrative
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A literary form that combines word meanings with their emotional associations and rhythms
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Poetry
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A brief poem creating a musical effect
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Lyric
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The voice of a poem
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Speaker
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A repeated grouping of 2 or more lines.
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Stanza
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An implied comparison
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Metaphor
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A poem of 3 unrhymed lines totalling 17 syllables
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Haiku
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The giving of human characteristics to a nonhuman subject.
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Personification
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a series of words.
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Alliteration
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A story told in verse.
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Narrative
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The use of words that imitate sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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A comparison using like or as.
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Couplet
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Any poem not written in a regurlar pattern of meter or rhyme.
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Free verse
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The use of any languarge element more than once.
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Repetition
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The descriptive language used to create word pictures by appealing to the five senses.
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Imagery
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A two-line stanza
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Couplet
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A four-line stanza
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Quatrain
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One whose job is to raise a greater appreciation for poetry.
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Poet Laureate
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A restatement or explanation of something in one's own words.
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Paraphrase
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