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32 Cards in this Set
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds
Ex. "Toon" and "food" in the same line. |
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Alliteration
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imitation of either vowel or consonant sounds
Ex. People who Pen Poetry |
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Apostrophe
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Speaker/writer directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea.
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Caesura
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Pause
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Enjambment
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Sentence pushed to next line
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Simile
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comparison using "like" or "as"
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identification betw 2 things
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(A = B)
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Prosopoeia
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Personification
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Oxymoron
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Paradox
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Concrete Imagery
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Things
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Immediate Imagery
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image using five senses
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Diffuse Imagery
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Motion, Time, Place
(Slow, fast, soon) |
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Abstract Imagery
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Nouns (Peace, love)
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"Event Space"
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The "situation" of the poem
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Denotation
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The explicit or direct meaning of something. NOT the ideas associated with it.
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Connotation
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The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression
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Stanza
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The structure
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Verse
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individual line of a poem
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Ballad*
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A narrative poem with 4 lines and rhyme.
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Ode
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song of praise
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Free verse
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free, no rhyme, no iambic
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Blank verse
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No rhyme, in Iambic Pentameter
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Metonymy
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calling something by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
**substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') |
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Synechdoche
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substitution of a whole for a part or vice versa.
Ex. calling a car "wheels." |
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symbol
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something that is something itself, and it also suggests something deeper.
a word that has a literal and figurative meaning. Ex. RAVEN is a symbol for death. |
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Allegory
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fictional figures and actions represent truths or generalizations about human existence
-a sustained metaphor |
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration for effect (to imply something)
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Litotes
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Understatement for effect
Ex. "well, she's not ugly..." |
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Metaphor
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explanation of an object or idea through juxtaposition of disparate things with a similar characteristic
Ex. "you're a pig!" |
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Irony
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difference between the way something appears and what is actually true
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Persona
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the speaker (could be poet)
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Tone
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the mood it creates in the reader
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