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28 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial stressed consonant sounds
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know-nothing
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Anaphora
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
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Caesura
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a stop or pause in a line marked by punctuation
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metonymy
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word referring to material, substituting another (crown referring to brit. monarchy)
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material
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Portmanteau
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combination of two words into one (smog)
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(combines port and man)
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Synecdoche
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a part of something which refers to the whole (wheels>car)
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necking
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Zeugma
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The use of a word to modify or govern 2 or more words in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or appropriate to only one. "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit"
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accentual verse
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verse whose meter is determined by the number of stressed syllables
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accentual-syllabic verse
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verse concerned w/ amount of feet according to line/stanza
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anapest
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u u /
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on a PEST
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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dactyl
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/ u u
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DAC tylllll
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Dimeter/trimeter/tetrameter/pentameter/hexameter
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number of feet per line
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enjambment
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ending a line w/o punctuation
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end-stopped line
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ending w/ punctuation
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feminine rhyme
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ends unstressed
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foot
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smallest unit of ASV
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free verse
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no meter
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iamb
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u /
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i AMMMMM
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internal rhyme
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rhyme within a single line or verse
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pararhyme
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vowel sound changes, consonants maintain (hall/hell)
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ryan, HELL
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sight rhyme
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clove/love
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spondee
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/ /
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SPON - DEE (IRON COCK)
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sprung rhythm
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feet that start with w /
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Syllabic verse
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haikus
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Trochee
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/ u
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TRUE- key
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names
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Micaela, Brett, Yasmine, Kevin, Callie, Sam, Yeshi, Nick
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