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50 Cards in this Set
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Define metaphor
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A comparison that does not use like or as
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The girl was a cow
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Define similie
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A comparison that uses like or as.
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She was beautiful like a rose
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Define personification
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Giving human like qualties to a non-human thing
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The book whispered
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Define Assonance
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Repition of a vowel sound in two of more words
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The captain's MATE used a lot of BAIT
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Define Onomatopeia
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The use of words to represent natural sounds
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BAM!
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Define metonymy
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Substitution of a word naming an object for another word associtated with it
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glass used to represent mirror
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Define synecdoche
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Mentioning the part of something to represent the whole
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All hands on deck!
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Define persona
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the voice assumed by the poet
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"My Last Dutchess" persona was a Duke
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Define consonance
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Repition of a constant sounds within a line or verse
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sizziling sirloin steak
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Define pun
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A play on words
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I used to be a carpenter, but then I got bored
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Define allusion
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A refrence to something well known like the Bible or mythology
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He worked for 6 days and rested on the 7th.
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Define paraphrase
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restatement of of a text, work, or passage in your own words
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Define denotation
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The dictionary definition of a word
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bad- not good
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Define rhyme
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reptiton of like sounds at regular intervals
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side hide ride lied tried died confide
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Define apostrophe
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Speaking to something that is not real or is no longer there
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Death! Leave me alone
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Define connotation
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Not the dictionary definition of a word but the suggestion of an additional meaning
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bad= meaning great; slang
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Define imagery
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patterns of related details; painting a word picture usedin diction, rhyme, meter, form, and/ or figurative language
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Define paradox
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words that seem like a complete untruth at the time but upon later inspection are a truth
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Sin on in virtue and good deeds commit
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Define allegory
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a symbolic representation
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Define irony
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an unexpected contrast or twist between what is said or done and what is expected
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Describe a Villanelle
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A 19 line lyric poem relying heavily on repetition. Always has five stanzas with three lines, rhyming aba, and a final stanza with four lines, abaa.
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Define alliteration
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repition of initial constant sounds in two or more words in same line
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Define refrain
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repetition of one of more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem
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Define meter
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the beat of a poem
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Define iambic
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One short syllable followed by one long; most common foot in poetry
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Define monometer
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one metrical line
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Define Foot in poetry
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a unit of meter
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Define trochaic
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one long syllable followed be one short
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Define dimeter
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two metrical lines
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Define anapestic
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Two short syllables followed by one long
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Define trimeter
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Three metrical lines
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Free verse
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Non rhyming with no regular meter
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Define an English sonnet
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A sonnet that has the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
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Define Dactylic
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One long syllable followed by two short syllables
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Define tetrameter
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4 metrical lines
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Define an Italian sonnet
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A sonnet that has the beginning rhyme scheme of abba abba and the last 6 lines are a varient of cdcd
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Define spondaic
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Two long syllables
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Define pentameter
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5 metrical lines.
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Define sonnet
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A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
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Define hexameter
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6 metrical lines
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Define stanza
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a divison of a poem based on thought or form
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Define Couplet
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a two line stanza
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Define triplet
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a three line stanza
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Define Quatrain
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a four line stanza
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Define Quintet
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a five line stanza
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Define Sestet
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a six line stanza
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Define septet
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a seven line stanza
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Define Octave
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an eight line stanza
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Define heptameter
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7 metrical lines
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Define octameter
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8 metrical lines
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