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20 Cards in this Set
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Personification
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Giving an inanimate object human feelings, qualities, or aspects.
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Assonance
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Repetition of the initial vowel sounds.
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Hyperbole
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An exageration.
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Rhyme Scheme
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The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.
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Oxymoron
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Contradictory terms being combined.
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End rhyme
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Rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verse/stanza.
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Imagery
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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, events, etc.
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Pun
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A humorous play on words.
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Simile
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Two unlike things being compared using "like" or "as".
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Consonance
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The repetition of any consonant sound other than tthe initial.
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Internal Rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs within the line of a verse.
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that imitate the sounds associated with them.
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Speaker
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The person who narrates the poem.
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Figurative Language
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Writing that departs form literal meaning.
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Metaphor
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When a word that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the initial consonant sound.
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Couplet
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Two lines in succession that rhyme.
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Sestet
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A group consisting of a couplet following a quatrain.
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Stanza
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A division of a poem.
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Tercet
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A group of 3 lines of verse, usually rhyming.
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