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50 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Head Rhyme or initial rhyme
(usually consonants) EX: wild and woolly |
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Allusion
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Implied or indindirect reference to something
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Anaphora*
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(epanaphora) the repetition of same word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases.
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Apostrophe
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Figure of speech in which an address is made to absent or deceased person
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Assonance
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Close vowel sounds but with different consonants. EX: date and fade
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Asyndeton
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omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words/phrases EX: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
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Blank Verse
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Poetry written without rhymes but with metrical pattern usually iambic pentameter
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Cacophony
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discordant sounds in jarring close harsh letters or syllables which are grating to the ear
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Cadence
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progressive rhythmical pattern in lines of verse. Natural tone
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Caesura
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Rhythmic break or pause in flow of sound
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Carpe Diem
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Seize the day (motif)
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Chiasmus*
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Inverted parallelism EX: a fop their passion, but theif prize a sot; to stop too fearful, and too faint to go
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Conceit Metaphor*
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Usually farfetched simile/metaphor comparing 2 REALLY unlike things
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Connotation
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implied meaning
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Consonance
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Close repetion of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with different vowel sounds EX boat and night OR drunk and milk
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Couplet
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2 successive lines of poetry, usually equal in length and rhythimc.
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Denotation
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literal meaning
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Diction
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manner of verbal expression
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Dramatic Monologue
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1 way convorsation which reaveals something
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End Stopped
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Denoting a line of verse which a logical pause occurs at end of line with period comma or semicolon
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Elegy
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Poem of lament, praise and consolation over death of person with sorrowful mood
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Enjambment
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Don't stop reading at the end of a line, read until period.
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Epigram
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satiric couplet or quatrain
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Epigraph
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Quotation to suggest a theme
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Epistrophe
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(epiphora) repetition of a word/expression at end of successive phrases EX: of the people, by the people, for the people
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Foot
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a unit of rhythm/meter iamb, anapest, trochee
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Free verse
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no fixed patterns
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Imagry
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elements of literary work used to evoke mental images
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Internal rhyme
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middle rhyme; rhyme occuring within the line
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Irony
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oxymoron
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Metaphor
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figure of speech comparing two things with like or as
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Meter
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measure of rhythmic quantity
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Metonoymy*
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substitution of one noun for another of which is attribute or which is closely associated EX the kttle boils OR he drank the cup
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Ode
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type of verse, varying iambic line lengths and has complexity of stanzaic forms
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Onomatopoeia
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EX sizzle, BANG
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Personification
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Type of metaphor in which gives emotion to something not living
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Polysyndeton*
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repetition of a number of conjunctions in close succession EX we have men and arms and planes and tanks
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Rhythm
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measure of meter
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Satire
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Ridicules huma
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Scan
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mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units/feet
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Scansion
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Analysis and graphic display of line's rhythm
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Simile
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uses like or as
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Stanza Forms
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names given to describe the number of lines in stanzaic unit EX: couplet, tercet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, octave
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Symbol
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image that stands for something
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Synecdoche*
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figures of speech which stands for the whole. EX wheels for automobile or society for high society
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Synesthesia
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Description of one kind of sense in which words are usually describing a different sense, EX: loud aroma OR velvety smile, creates vivid imagry
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Theme
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central idea of work
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Tone
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persona's attitude
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Zeugma
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figure of speech in which word is used in same manner with 2 other words EX my father wept for woe while I for joy
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