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17 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Assonance
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repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
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Alliteration
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repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words
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Connontation
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idea or meaning suggested by with a word of thing
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Denotation
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most specific of direct meaning of a word
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Apostrophe
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poem to an absent person or thing
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Elegy
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poem as a lament for a dead person
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Metonymy
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Figure of speech where one word is substituted for another
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Hyperbole
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Extreme exaggeration
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Masculine Rhyme
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rhyme on a single stressed syllable
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Feminine Rhyme
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rhyme in which the final syllable is unstressed
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Internal Rhyme
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Rhe that occurs within line
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Euphony/Cacophony
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agreeable sound/harsh discordant sounds
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Conceit
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exaggerated comparison throughout poem
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Free Verse
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usually unrhymed lines, no fixed metrical pattern
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Blank Verse
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Verse with unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter
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caesure
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pause in middle of line
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onomatopoeia
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sound words
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