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32 Cards in this Set
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rhyme
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correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
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end rhyme
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rhyme at end of lines
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slant rhyme
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is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved
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repetion
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repeating or repeated the repetition of usually initial sounds in two,more neighboring words,syllables
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iamb
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metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable
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sonnet
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a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines
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haiku
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a Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables
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poetry
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metrical writing
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prose
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the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
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inference
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the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment
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hyperbole
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extravagant exaggeration
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denotation
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an act or process of denoting
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iambic pentamitor
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metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama
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iambic tetramitor
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meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet
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yoda speak
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An inverted sentence is when the subject does not begin the sentence.
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lyric poem
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is a form of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings.
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narritive poen
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is poetry that has a plot
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connotation
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s a commonly understood, subjective cultural and/or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word or phrase's explicit or literal meaning
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simile
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is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than"
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metophor
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is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another
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extended metophor
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lso called a conceit, is a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow
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dictation
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a saying, expression, word
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personofication
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an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person
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couplet
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A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry
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symbol
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a late nineteenth-century style of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry
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stanza
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part of a poem
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quatrain
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s a stanza or poem consisting of four verses
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line break
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s when the line of a poem ceases to extend, and a new line starts; within the standard conventions of Western literature
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stanza break
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it is the same as a line break
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dramatic monolog
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is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker
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dilect
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is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speaker
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figurative languge
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is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language
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