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24 Cards in this Set
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Figurative Language |
Metaphor, simile, personification, and onomatopoeia, to express ideas or feelings in a fresh way. |
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Metaphor |
compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like, as, than, or resembles. |
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Simile |
Comparisons using connecting words. |
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Personification |
Language that attributes human qualities to non-living things. |
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Onomatopoeia |
Use of words whole sound imitates its meaning |
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Imagery |
Descriptive language to create word pictures. |
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Stanzas |
Grouping of lines |
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Couplets |
Have two lines. |
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Quartrains |
Have four lines. |
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Sound Device |
Achieve a musical quality |
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Rhythm |
Pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence |
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Rhyme |
Repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of the initial consonant sound of words. |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby wrds |
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Concinance |
Repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ |
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Repetition |
The use of any language element more than once |
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Free Verse |
No set matter or rhyme scheme |
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Narrative |
The writer tells a story in the verse |
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Epic |
A long narrative about an adventure or hero |
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Ballad |
Song-like narrative about an adventure or romance |
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Dramatic |
The writer tells a story using a characters own thoughts of statement |
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Lyric |
A brief poem in which the author expresses the feelings of a single speaker |
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Haiku |
Poem containing three non-rhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
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Sonnet |
14 lined lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme. |