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25 Cards in this Set
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Figurative Language |
Use of metaphor, simile, personification and onomatopoeia. |
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Metaphor |
Comparison of 2 unlike things without using the words like or as. |
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Simile |
Comparison of 2 unlike things using the words like or as. |
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Personification |
Language that attributes human characteristics to non-human things. |
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Onomatopoeia |
Use of words whose sounds imitates its meaning. |
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Imagery |
Descriptive language poets use to make "word pictures." |
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Stanzas |
Grouping of lines. |
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Couplets |
Stanza with 2 lines. |
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Quatrains |
Stanza with 4 lines. |
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Sound Devices |
Poets use to achieve musical quality. |
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Rhythm |
Pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllable. |
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Rhyme |
Repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables. |
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Rhyme Scheme |
A pattern of end rhymes. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonant sounds of words. |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonants within nearby words. |
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Repetition |
Use of any language element more than once. |
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Free Verse |
No set meter or rhyme scheme. |
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Narrative |
Writer tells a story in a verse. |
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Epic |
Long narrative about a hero or god. |
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Ballad |
Song-like narrative about romance or an adventure. |
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Dramatic |
Tells a story using a single characters thoughts or statements. |
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Lyric |
Brief poem, thoughts of a single person, musical quality. |
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Haiku |
Not rhymed, contains 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables. |
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Sonnet |
14 line lyric poem, formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm and structure. |
