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15 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repitition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds
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allusion
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a reference explicit or implicit to something in literature or history
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apostrophe
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figure of speech in which someone absent/dead/something non-human is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
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assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds
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ballad meter
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a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three feet in lines two and four
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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cacophony
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harsh, discordant sound
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caesura
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speech pause occuring within a line
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connotation
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what a word suggests beyond its basic definition
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couplet
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two successive lines usually in the same meter linked by rhyme
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Alliteration
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repitition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds
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allusion
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a reference explicit or implicit to something in literature or history
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apostrophe
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figure of speech in which someone absent/dead/something non-human is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
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assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds
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ballad meter
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a four line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three feet in lines two and four
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