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34 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The Repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. |
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Allusion |
Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize. |
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Anaphora |
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. |
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Apostrophe |
Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. |
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Assonance |
The repetition of identical vowels sounds in different words in close proximity. |
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Caesura |
A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry. Carpe diem poetry:"seize the day." Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act or enjoy the present. |
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Chiasmus |
Reversal of two elements; antimetabole, is the reversal of the same words in grammatical structure. |
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Consonance |
is the counterpart of assonance; the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. |
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Diction |
Describe the level of formality that a speaker uses. Formal, High, Neutral, Middle, Informal, Low. |
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End-Stopped Line |
A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or simicolon |
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Enjambment |
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. |
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Explication |
A complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature, often word-by-word and line-by-line. |
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Hyperbole |
Isfor effect; litotes is understatement for effect, often used for irony. |
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Image |
Are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of(visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile). |
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Internal rhyme |
An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as withassonance) within a line of poetry |
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Metaphor |
A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as ifwere something else. |
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Metaphysical Conceit |
An elaborate and extended metaphor or simile that links twoapparently unrelated fields or subjects in an unusual and surprising conjunction of ideas. |
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Meter |
The number of feet within a line of traditional verse. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate orsuggest the activity being described. |
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Paradox |
A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that istrue. |
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Personification |
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions |
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Refrain |
repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to theverse, as in a ballad. |
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Ryme |
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most oftenthe ends of lines. |
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Double rhyme or trochaic rhyme |
rhyming words of two syllables in which thefirst syllable is accented |
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Triple rhyme or dactylic rhyme |
Rhyming words of three or more syllableswhich any syllable but the last is accented. |
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Eye rhyme |
Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identicallypronounced differently. |
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Slant rhyme |
A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant soundsidentical but not the vowels. |
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Rhyme scheme |
The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter ofthe alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. |
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Rhyme royal |
royal: Stanza form used by Chaucer, usually in iambic pentameter, withrhyme scheme ababbcc. |
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Scan (scansion) |
the process of marking beats in a poem to establish themetrical pattern. Prosody, the pronunciation of a song or poem, is necessary for scansion. |
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Simile |
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to statethe terms of the comparison. |
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Stanza |
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the metersrhymes are usually repeating or systematic. |
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Synaesthesia |
A rhetorical figure that describes one sensory impression in terms ofdifferent sense, or one perception in terms of a totally different or even opposite feeling. |
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Syntax |
Word order and sentence |
