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20 Cards in this Set
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stanza |
a group of lines forming recurring units within a poem |
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a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem |
couplet |
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elegy |
a lyric poem that laments the dead |
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a poem that tells a story |
narrative poem |
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speaker |
the voice that speaks a poem |
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the pattern of related images in a literary work |
imagery |
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figurative language |
a form of language use in which writers and speaker convey something other than the literal meaning of their words |
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a form of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared using the words "like" or "as" |
simile |
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metaphor |
a form of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared without using the words "like" or "as" |
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a figure of speech involving exaggeration (example: "Go chase a comet!") |
hyperbole |
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personification |
the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
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the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe (example: snap) |
onomatopoeia |
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meter |
the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems |
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the selection or choice of words used in a literary work |
diction |
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end rhyme |
the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words |
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the near-matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words |
slant rhyme |
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rhythm |
the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse |
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the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words |
alliteration |
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assonance |
the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose (example: I rose and told him of my woe) |
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the associations called up by a words that goes beyond its dictionary meaning |
connotation |
