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31 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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Repitition of consonant sounds; example: Lauren licks lollipops
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free verse
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doesn't have a regular pattern
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imagery
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language appealing to the senses
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internal rhyme
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rhyme occuring within a line of poetry
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rhythm
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refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we use language
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meter
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regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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scanning
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marking of unstressed and stressed syllables in a poem
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rhyme
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repitition of vowel sounds
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end rhyme
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rhyme occuring at the end of a line
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sight rhyme
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words appear to rhyme, but dont; ex: cough/tough
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slant rhyme
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almost rhymes, but not excatly ex: leave/live, broken/lonesome
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhymes ex: abbaccdc
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limerick
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a humorous five lined poem that has a regular meter aabba
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onomatopeia
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words that sound like their meaning; ex: snap crackle pop!
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lyric poetry
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a song like poem that expresses the speakers feelings
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narrative poetry
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poem that tells a story
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mood
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the overall emotion created by a work of literature; ex: sad, happy, scary, romantic
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tone
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the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
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personification
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where an un-human thing takes on human qualities. ex: wind runs, dog talks
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climax
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high point in action
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parody
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a take on something; ex: Simpson's "The Raven"
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stanza
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a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph
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simile
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a comparison using like or as
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metaphor
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a comparison not using like or as
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"Jabberwocky"
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Lewis Carroll
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"The Runaway"
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Robert Frost
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"I'm Nobody"
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Emily Dickinson
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"Madam and the Rent Man"
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Langston Hughes
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"Annabell Lee"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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About Emily Dickinson
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1) Became a recluse
2) Wanted to be a nobody |
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About Poe
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1) Went through many people close to him dying of TB
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