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37 Cards in this Set
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Abstract Language
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describes generalizations/concepts, ideas, intangibles
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Alliteration
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repeating consonant sounds at the start
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Allusions
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references to people, objects, events outside the poem
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Anapest
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A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen
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Anaphora
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conscious use of repeated words/lines
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Assonance
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repeating vowel sounds
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Blank Verse
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type of poetry with regular meter but no rhyme (commonly iambic pentameter)
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Cacophony
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group of harsh sounds
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Caesura
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a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes indicated with punctuation, often imitates natural speech patterns
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Concrete Language
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identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter
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Connotation
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suggested meaning
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Consonance
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repeating consonant sounds
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Dactyl
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one stressed, two unstressed syllables (poetry)
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Diction
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poem's word choice
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dimeter
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line containing two metrical feet
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Enjambment
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a line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for meaning
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Euphony
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passages that arrange/repeat vowels and smooth consonants (l, m, n, y, w); pleasing sound without disruption
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Falling/feminine rhyme
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end rhymes with unaccented last syllable (falling, bells ring)
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Figurative Image
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likens object/experience to something
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free verse
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no meter
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Heptameter
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7 feet
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Hexameter
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metrical unit with six feet
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quatrain
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four lines
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iamb
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metrical foot with unstressed syllable then stressed syllable (delay)
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Metonymy
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substitutes an identifying emblem/aspect to represent someone or something (the gangster used to be a hired gun)
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Pentameter
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line of verse consisting of five metrical feet
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Petrarchan sonnet
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consists of an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines
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Rising/masculine rhyme
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end rhymes with accented last syllable
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septet
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7 lines
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sestet
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6 lines
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Shakespearean sonnet
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3 quatrains rhyming abab, cdcd, efef, couplet gg
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Synecdoche
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substitutes part or piece of a thing to represent the whole; form of metonymy (I need to buy some new wheels)
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tercet
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3 lines
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Tetrameter
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4 feet
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trimeter
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3 feet
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Trochee
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accented, unaccented (turkey)
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Villanelle
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19 lines: 5 tercets (3 lines), 1 quatrain (4 lines); rhyme aba, abaa
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