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17 Cards in this Set
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Terza Rima
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Is a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking 3-line rhyme scheme.
Ex: "The Saw"- Sylvia Plath, "Acquainted with the Night"- Robert Frost |
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Eye Rhyme of Sight Rhyme
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A rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but are pronounced differently.
Ex: Slaughter and Laughter |
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Villanelle
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Is a 19 line poetic form consisting of five tercets, followed by a quatrain. Contains two refrains and two repeating rhymes.
Ex: "Lonely Heart" by Wendy Cope (Pg. 766) |
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Enjambment
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Is an incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation.
Ex: "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot |
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Anaphora
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The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Ex: "The Bible" |
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Caesura
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Is a strong pause within a line, and is often alongside enjambment.
Ex: "My Last Duchess" by William Blake (Pg. 888) |
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Epistrophe
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Defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of clauses or sentences.
Ex: "The Rebel" by D.J. Enright |
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Anastrophe
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A rhetorical term for the inversion of conventional word order.
Ex: "Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you"- Yoda |
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Chiasmus
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Is the reversing of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases.
Ex: "One should eat to live, not live to eat."- Cicero |
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Euphony
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Is a pleasing or sweet sound; the acoustic effect produced by words formed or combined to please the ear.
Ex: "Come Down O Maid" by Tennyson (Pg. 862) |
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Cacophony
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A harsh discordance of sound; dissonance
Ex: "I detest war because cause of war is always trivial." |
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Synecdoche
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A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.
Ex: "Lycidas" by John Milton (Pg. 826) |
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Antonomasia
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A rhetorical term for the substitution of a title, epithet or a descriptive phrase for a proper name to designate a member of a group or class.
Ex: Descriptive nicknames |
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Synesthesia
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Refers to a technique adopted by writers, to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense at a time. (taste,touch,sound,sight,smell)
Ex: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy |
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Litote
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"Simple" Is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives, or a positive statement.
Ex: "A million dollars is not a lot of money" |
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Ex: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears"- Julius Ceasar |
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Parallelism
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Is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.Ex: "Like father, like son"
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