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12 Cards in this Set
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Figurative Language
Express ideas or feelings in a fresh way. |
Metaphor
To compare two apparently unlike things with out using like or as. |
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Simile
To make such comparrisons using connecting words, like or as. |
Personification
Is a language that attriubutes human quilities to non-human things.
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Onomatopoeia
Is the use of the word whose sound imiatates its meaning. |
Imagery
Descriptive language poets used to create word pictures or images to describe their poem. |
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Stanzas
Grouping of lines. |
Couplets
They only have two lines. |
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Quatrains
These only have four lines. |
Sound Devices
To achieve musical quilty. |
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Rhythm
Is the pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence. |
Rhyme
Is the repeition of identical or similar sounds syllables. |
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Rhyme Scheme
Free verse, has no set meter or rhyme scheme.
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Alliteration
Is the repeition of the initial consonatant sounds of words and phrases. |
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Assonance
Is the repietion in a vowel sounds in near by words. |
Consonance
Is the repietion of consonants within near by words. |
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Repetition
Is the use of any language element more than once. |
Free Verse
Has no set of matter or meter. |
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Narrative
The writer tells a story in a verse. |
Epic
A long narrative poem about gods. |
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Ballad
Is a song like narrative about a adventure or romance. |
Dramatic
The writer tells a story using a characters own thoughts or statments. |
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Lyric
A breif poem in which the authour expresses the feelings of a single speaker creating a single effect on the reader. |
Haiku
Three unryhmed lines of five, seven, five syllables. |
