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23 Cards in this Set
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Anaphora |
The repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses |
Lady of shalott and Camelot |
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Apostrophe |
A figure of speech in which a writer directly addresses an object. |
Hamlets skull |
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Apposition |
placement of words like a noun or noun phrase that are directly followed by a noun or noun phrase which means the exact same thing or can give more information.Examples:"they range, busily seeking with a continual change" |
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Assonance |
Assonance is the repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds surrounding by different consonants to form a sound similarly to alliteration. |
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Conceit |
A logically complex metaphor or simile which is arguably more intellectual than sensual. |
Metaphors |
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Consonance |
The pairing of words with similar initial and ending consonants but with different vowel sounds |
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Enjambment |
when a thought, sense, clause or sentence does not stop at the end of the line, but continues on the next line. |
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End stop |
is the opposite of enjambment, occurs when a line of poetry ends with a natural pause. Basically it is when the line of a poem ends with punctuation (colo, semi-colon, period). A line can also be considered end-stopped if it contains a complete phrase. |
Opposite of enjambment |
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Internal rhymes |
Rhymes within the verse |
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Inversion |
Alien metric foot in a line of otherwise metric pattern |
Yoda |
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Litotes |
an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. |
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Metonymy |
A substitute word unrelated but stuck in there |
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Merisim |
a synecdoche in which opposites are stated "searching high and low" |
Opposite words together |
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Synecdoche |
part is referred to as the whole, or the whole is referred to as a part. Popular examples of a synecdoche would be calling a member of a ship a hand, or calling the ship a sail. This is a form of metonymy which can also be found in this glossary. |
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Parallelism |
describes the repetition in a line, stanza or sentence of a particular pattern. This pattern can be in the meanings, the sounds, the meters or the structure. Such repeated pattern creates a rhythm and a sensation of order. |
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Caesura |
A break in a line like beowolf |
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Elision |
The omission of a letter (in most cases, a vowel) or an unstressed syllable from a word, in order to lessen the number of beats in a line of verse. Elision permits words to more easily comply with metrical systems within lines and verses. |
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Spondee |
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Troctye |
(opposite of an iambic /x |
/x |
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Pyhrric |
A line of metrical verse that contains two weak stresses. xx |
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Iambic |
X / |
Untreated stressed |
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Dactyl |
Three syllables / x x stressed double unstressed |
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Anapest |
X x l |
Unstressed X2 stressed |
