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25 Cards in this Set
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Figurative Language |
to express ideas or feelings in a fresh way. |
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Metaphor |
comparing two unlike things without using "like, as, then" |
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Simile |
to make such comparisons using connecting words. |
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Personification |
language that attributes human qualities to non-human things. |
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Onomatapoeia |
the use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning "buzz, sizzle, hiss". |
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Imagery |
descriptive language poets use to create word pictures, or images. |
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Stanzas |
organization of lines or a grouping of lines. |
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Coupltes |
has two lines. |
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Quatrains |
has four lines. |
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Sound devices |
achieve a musical quality. |
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Rhythm |
pattern. |
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Rhyme |
repetition of identical or similar sounds and unstressed syllables of words in a sequence. |
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Rhyme scheme |
a pattern of end rhymes. |
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Alliteration |
repetition of the initial constant sound of words. |
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Assonance |
a repetition of a vowel sound in a nearby word. |
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Consonance |
repetition of constants within a nearby word. |
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Repetition |
the use of any language element more than once. |
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Free verse |
has no set meter or rhyme scheme. |
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Narrative |
the writer tells a story in a verse. |
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Epic |
a long narrative poem about gods or heroes. |
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Ballad |
a songlike narrative about an adventure or a romance. |
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Dramatic |
the writer tells a story using a charecter's own thoughts or statements. |
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Lyric |
a brief poem in which the author expresses the feelings of a single speaker. |
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Haiku |
a poem containing three unrhymed lines or five, seven, and five syllables. |
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Sonnet |
a fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure. |
