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17 Cards in this Set
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Terza Rima
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Rhyming verse stanza interlocking three-line rhyme scheme.
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" ABA, BCB, CDC, DED |
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Eye Rhyme
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Simulating in spelling, not pronunciation
Thomas Moore's "Rose of Summer" |
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Villanelle
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19 line poem: 5 torcets ans 1 quatrain
"Do not go gentle into that good night" -Dylan Thomas |
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Enjambment
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Phrases over line breaks without major pause/punctuation.
"Bright Star" by John Keats |
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Anaphora
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Deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence.
"I have a dream" MLK |
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Caesura
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A complete pause in a line of poetry or musical.
"Sing a song of sixpence" |
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Epistrophe
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Repetition of the same words at the end of successive phrases
"The Rebel"- DJ Enright |
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Anastrophe
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The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.
"Do or do not, there is no try." YODA |
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Chiasmus
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2 or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structure.
"inverted parallelism" |
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Euphony
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The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of note worthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create.
"Ode to Autumn" John Keats |
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Cacophony
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Combine sharp, harsh or unmelodious sounds.
Opposite Euphony Jabberwocky- Lewis Carrolls, Through the Looking Glass. |
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Synedoche
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Literary device where a part of something represents the whole. "The Rime of the ancient Mariner" Coleridge |
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Antonomasia |
A figure if speech when a defining word or phrase substitutes a persons proper name.
"The Bard of Avon" (William Shakespeare) |
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Synesthesia |
Presenting ideas so they can appeal to more than one sense. "Ode to a Nightingale" John Keats |
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Liote |
Using an understatemnet to emphasize a point. "No ordinary city" Acts 21:39 (NIV) |
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Metonymy |
When it isnt called by its actual name but by something similar to it. "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears " William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar |
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Parallelism |
Balance between one or more sentences, phrases, and clauses. "That government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address |
