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35 Cards in this Set
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Occassional Verse
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Poem that is written about or for an important event
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Persona
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The speaker of a poem
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Epigraph
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A brief explanatory statement or quotation
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Dramatic Monologue
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Implies a connection between the persona and the auditor. (Telling on yourself).
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Connotation
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Implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired through time.
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Simile
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Comparison using liks, as, or than
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Metaphor
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Direct comparison of two unlike things
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Hyperbole
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Overstatement
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Allusion
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Makes a direct comparison to a historical or literary event/character/etc
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Metonymy
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Use of a related object to stand for the thing beind talked about (The white house announced today...)
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Synecdoche
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Use of a part for the whole (Hire some hands to help...)
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Personification
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Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
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Apostrophe
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Variety in which a nonhuman thing is directly addresed "Oh Moon...."
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Oxymoron
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A short paradox usually consisting of an adjective and a noun.
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Synesthesia
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A conscious mixing of two different types of sensory experience.
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Irony
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A tone that's contrary to the message that the speaker is portraying.
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Anaphora
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Beginning the same lines with a repeated words or phrase.
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Iambic
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Unstressed, Stressed pattern
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Trochaic
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Stressed, Unstressed pattern
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Anapestic
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Unstressed, Unstressed Stressed pattern
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Dactylic
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Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed pattern
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Monometer
Dimeter Trimeter Tetrameter Pentameter |
One, two, three, four, and five feet of poetry respectively.
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Enjambed lines
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Lines that run in to the next line - they have no period or end stop.
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Pyrrhic
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Two Unstressed
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Spondee
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Two Stressed
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Trope
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A figure of speech
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Assonance
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Repetitive use of vowel sounds
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Consonnance
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Repetitive use of consonant sounds
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Caesura
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Break in a line, often denoted with commas
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Synesthesia
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Combining multiple sensory experiences
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Alliteration
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Repetition of same-sounding consonants or vowels
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Internal rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
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Accentual verse
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Every line has same number of pattern of accents
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Vehicle
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Part of the simile that the vehicle is being compared to - second part of a simile.
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Tenor
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First word of a simile - the things that are being compared.
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