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34 Cards in this Set
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Audience
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The intended readers of a poem
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Speaker
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the voice of the poem
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Mood/Tone
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the attitude an author takes toward his/her work. How do they make you feel?
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Narrative
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a poem that tells a story. It may be short or long
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Lyric
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a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
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Diction
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A poet's choice of words
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Formal Diction
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consists of dignified, impersonal and elevated use of language
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Middle Diction
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A less formal level of diction or use of words. One that is spoken by most educated people
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Informal Diction
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The use of language in a conversational manner that may use slang expressions not used by the culture at large
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Rhyme
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consists of two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds.
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End Rhyme
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Most common type of rhyme. It comes at the end of a line
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Internal Rhyme
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Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line
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Masculine Rhyme
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The rhyming of single-syllable words
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Feminine Rhyme
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Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllable
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern of rhyme in a poem
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes: quack, buzz, rattle, bang, sqeak, bowwow
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
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denotation
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the literal, dictionary meanings of a word
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connotation
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associations and implications that go beyond on word's literal meaning
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ambiguity
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allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work
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allusion
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a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
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simile
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makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as: like, as, than, appears or seems
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metaphor
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like a simile, makes a comparison between two unlike things, but it does so implicitly, without words such as like or as
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image
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language that addresses the senses
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imagery
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all of a poem's images taken together
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paradox
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a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory, but that, on closer inspection turns out to make sense
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oxymoron
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a condensed form of a paradox in which two contradictory words are used together
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hyperbole
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exaggeration that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true
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understatement
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says less than is intended
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pun
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a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
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sonnet
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"little song" a fixed form of poetry consisting of 14 lines and an identifiable rhyme scheme
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iambic pentameter
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a line of ten syllables, five stressed and five unstressed made famous by Shakespeare
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Personification
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Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate, nonhuman object
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