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25 Cards in this Set
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Stanza |
grouping of lines |
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Couplets |
a stanza type of 2 lines |
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Quatrains |
a stanza type of 4 lines |
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Figurative language |
used to express ideas or feelings in a fresh way |
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Metaphors |
a type of figurative language used to compare 2 apparently unlike things without using the words, like, as, than, or resembles |
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Personification |
language that attributes human qualities to non-human things |
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Onomatopoeia |
the use of a word whose sound imitates it`s meaning. |
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Imagery |
a descriptive language poets use to create word pictures, or images |
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Rythm |
is the pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence |
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Rhmye |
the repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables |
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Assonance |
the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
child of silence |
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Alliteration |
the repetition of the initial constant sounds of words |
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Consonance |
the repetition of constants within nearby words in which the separating vowel differ
live and love |
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Repetition |
the use of any language element more than once |
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Sensory language |
images that provide details related to the senses |
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narrative |
the writer tells the story in a verse |
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Epic |
a long narrative poem about gods or heroes |
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Ballard |
a song-like narrative about adventure or romance |
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Dramatic |
tells story using charaters own thoughts nd statements |
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Sonnet |
14 line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure |
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Haiku |
a poem containing 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
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Lyric |
a brief poem in which the author expresses the feelings of a single speaker, creating a single effect on the reader allaB |
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Sound Devices |
The things that poets use to achieve a musical quality |
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Rhyme Scheme |
a pattern of end rhymes |
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Free verse |
A poem that has has no set meter or rhyme scene |
