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24 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of intial consonant sounds for a particulare aural effect
Darkness Billowing Beyond the Dark morning |
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Allusion
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reference to a person or thing outside the poem
I was as innocent as Adam-she, as conniving as Eve |
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Apostrophe
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Afigure of speech in which someone absent or dead is addressed as if she or he were alive and present and could reply
Madeleine Sophie, please guide me |
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Assonance
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teh repetition of vowel sounds
mAd As A hAtter |
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Conosonance
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repitition of final consonant sounds
It was a stroKE of luKC |
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Denotion/connotation
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Denotation:basic dictionary definition
Connotation: what a word suggests to an individual While CHEAP and FRUGAL may have similar definitions, they carry wiht them very different suggested meanings |
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End rhyme
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When the rhyming words are at the ends of lines
so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost |
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form
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the look of the poem (what is the length of the stanzas?What genre is it written in (sonnet, limerick, haiku, sestina, vilanelle?)
couplets (2lines) tercets (2lines) quatrains (4lines) |
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high diction/low diction
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high-formal-verses low-casual-language the diction of a poem can have an effect on the reader's interpretation of the lines
How may I assist you sir? Whaddya want? |
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which something is exaggerated
I slept for a hundred years in the summer garden. |
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Imagery
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the representation of a particular thing through sensory description. Vivid imagery enables a reader to easily "imagine"in his or her head what the poet is describing by appealing to the senses
The hair on his head could ahve been confused with a plastic patio carpet. |
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Internal rhyme
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When two or more words rhyme within a single line
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss Romeo (also slant rhyme) |
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Couplet
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two lines that rhyme (probably at end of stanza)
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Synax
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order of words
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Diction
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choise of words
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitutation (a simile is a specific type of metaphor using like or as)
My brother is a speeding train on his way to nowhere. |
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Near rhyme/slant rhyme
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words with any kind of sound similarity
I shut the door on the racket Of rush hour traffic |
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Paradox
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A statement or situation that contains cntradictory (or at least incompatible) elements
Despite her popularity, she felt utterly alone |
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Personification
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a figure of speech in which human attributtes are given to an animal, or an objuect or a concept
The door crept open like a baby from a nap |
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Rhyme or rime
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the reptition of the accented vowel sound and any consonants th at follow
vain/reign |
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Simile
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AS metaphor which uses like or as
I felt like the celery in the chicken noodle soup. |
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Symbol
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A figure of speech in which soumthing (object, person, situation, action) means more than what it is
In other words a symbol has both a surface meaning and an underlying meaning When she offered me an olive branch, I acceped it gratefully |
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Tone
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In spoken language ton is idencated by inflections in a speaker's voice; in written language, ton eis indicated by the word choises made by the author and represents his/her attitude toward the subject about which he/she is writing
I hate you, can be said angrily, lovingly, fearfully, in suprise, terror, jest, agony. Or if an authr calls children "little germ carriers" rather than "cherubs"it makes it clear what she thinks of them |
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Understatement
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a figure of speach that represents something as less than it is
A man has his arm completely severed from his body and says its just a fleswh wound. A concerned friend says "its nothing' |
