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25 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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genre of literature
-figures of speech -descriptive language -can have a rhythm or beat -rhyme scheme |
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Narrative Poem
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telling a story
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Lyrical Poem
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poem with a certain structure
-haiku, elegy, ode |
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Structured Poem
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poem that has a particular pattern
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Free Verse
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Poem with no structure
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Couplet
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2 lines that rhyme standing alone
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Repitition
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sounds or words that tries to get a point across, but the repeat
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rhyme scheme
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pattern created by rhyming
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meter
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rhythm that continually repeats in a predictable pattern
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Free Verse
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no rules or pattern to guide construction
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enjambment
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continue from line to line. unless punctuation
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literary devices
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add depth, meaning and sophistication
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figure of speech
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add to the meaning/ "sound" of a poe m
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meaning
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audience has to uncover the poem "read b/w the lines"
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metaphor
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direct or uses "be"
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simile
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uses "like" or "as"
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personification
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characteristics to inaniment objects
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allusion
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refers to a person, place, or thing that should be common knowledge
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sound
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affect how you read/hear the poem, and character
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onomatopoeia
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sounds that sound like what they are
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alliteration
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repetition of consonant sounds
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ambiguity
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uncertainty or unexactness of meaning in language
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literal meaning
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most basic meaning of a word without metaphor
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symbolic meaning
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gets reader to associate two things
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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