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21 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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apostrophe
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speaking to the dead as though they were alive
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words
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blank verse
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poetry that is unrhymed but has a fixed meter
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couplet
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two successive rhyming lines
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figurative language
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language that uses figures of speech and is not literal
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free verse
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poetry with no regular rhyme, meter, or line length
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hyperbole
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an extreme exaggeration
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lyric
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a songlike poem
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metaphor
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a comparison that does not use like or as
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meter
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a pattern of stressed and unstressed sylables in a line of poetry
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narrative
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a poem that tells a story
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onomatopoeia
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words that sound like there meaning
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oxymoron
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two opposite words placed next to one another for contrast
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personification
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giving human characteristics to non human things
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rhyme
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words that have the same ending sounds
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rhythm
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the metrical pattern
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satire
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making fun of something to prove a point
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simile
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a comparison using like or as
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stanza
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a grouping of lines in poetry
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symbol
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something that stands for something else
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