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23 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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is the repetition of initial consonant sounds or vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables
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Ballad
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a songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance
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Couplet
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a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
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Extended Metaphor
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sustains the comparison for several lines or for an entire poem
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Haiku
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a three-line verse form about nature(5,7,5)
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Hyperbole
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a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
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Imagery
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the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, doesn’t use like or as
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Meter
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is its rhythmical pattern. This pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line
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Rhyme
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the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
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Rhythm
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the pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language
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Speaker
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is the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem
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Symbol
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anything that stands for or represents something else
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Theme
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a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
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Tone
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is the writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
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Sonnet
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is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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Figurative language
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uses simile, lyrical metaphor, and personification in creative, unexpected comparisons and descriptions
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Rhyme scheme
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regular pattern of rhyming words that appear at the end of lines in a poem
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Simile
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figure of speech... uses like or as and makes a comparison between two unlike things
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Narrative Poem
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tells a story
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Lyric poetry
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expresses vivid thoughts and feelings
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Dramatic Poetry
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techniques of drama, such as speaker and conflict, to tell a story
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Musical devices
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such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, meter, repetition, and rhyme give poems a melodious quality
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