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33 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of identical consonant sounds
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Allusion
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A cross reference to another work of art, event, person, etc.
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Ana'phora
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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work
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Antithesis
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Saying the opposite of what you really mean
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Assonance
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The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity
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Ballad
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A narrative poem composed of quatrains rhyming b-a-b-a
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Blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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a short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry
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Carpe Diem Poetry
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"Seize the day." Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present
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Consonance
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Using words that have identical or nearly identical consonants but whose main vowels differ
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Couplet
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Two successive rhyming lines
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Enjambment
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A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line
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Eye Rhyme
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Words that look as though they should rhyme because they are spelled identically but are pronounced differently
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Foot/Feet
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A foot is described by the character and number of syllables it contains: in English, feet are named for the combination of accented and unaccented syllables
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Free Verse
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Verse without regular meter or rhyme
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration for effect
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Iamb
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an unstressed/stressed (short/long) foot (or pair of syllables)
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Iambic Pentameter
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It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat
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Image
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Images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sight, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations of touch
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things, describes one thing as if it were something else
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Meter
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describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse, or is the number of feet within a line of traditional verse
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Onomatopoeia
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A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described
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Paradox
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a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd
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Personification
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Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
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Quatrain
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A four-line stanza or poetic unit
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Rhyme
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The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words
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Simile
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A comparison using like or as
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Slant Rhyme
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A near rhyme in which the end consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels
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Sonnet
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A poem consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
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Stanza
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A group of poetic lines
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Synecdoche
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Using Part of an object to stand for the whole thing. "Have you got your wheels, man?"
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Understatement
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Deliberately underplaying or undervaluing a thing to create emphasis
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Verse
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a line of poetry, and entire poem, or a collection of poetry
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