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25 Cards in this Set
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Alternate Rhyme
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Lines of poetry where the rhyme is on every other line. (ABAB) |
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Caesura
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A mid-line pause.
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Couplet
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A two line verse. (Often rhyming) |
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End-Focus
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A change in the structure of the sentence to place emphasis on a closing sentence element.
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Enjambment
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Run-on lines.
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Eye Rhyme
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Where the rhyme looks like it should rhyme but the sound is not exactly the same.
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Iambic
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A unit of poetic meter containing one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable. |
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Internal Rhyme
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Where the rhyming sound occurs within a line of verse. |
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Pentameter
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A unit of poetic meter containing five feet (10 syllables in total). |
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Octect
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An eight line verse.
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Quatrain
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A four line verse.
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Sestet
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A six line verse.
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Free Verse
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Free verse poetry is very controversial, like someone is talking to you. A more modern type of poetry. |
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Blank Verse |
Written in lines of iambic pentameter,but does NOT use end rhyme. |
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End Rhyme
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A word at the end of one linerhymes with a word at the end of another line
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that imitate the sound that they are naming. |
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Alliteration
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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words. |
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Consonance
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Repeated consonance sounds can be anywhere in the words. |
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Refrain
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A sound, word, or line repeated regularly within a poem. |
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Simile
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A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
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Metaphor
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A direct comparison of two unlike things.
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Extended Metaphor
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A metaphor that goes several lines or possible the entire length of a work.
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Implied Metaphor
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The comparison is hinted at but not clearly stated. |
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
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Personification
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Ananimal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities. |
