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20 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A hidden meaning or message.
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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Closed Form
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A set form/outline that the poet must follow.
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Connotation
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Associations of a word beyond it's dictonary meaning.
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Convention
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A customary feature of a literary work.
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Couplet
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A pair of rhymed lines.
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Elegy
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A mourning lyric poem.
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Figurative Language
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Using internal other than literal meanings of words.
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Foil
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An antagonist.
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Foot
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A metrical unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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lyric Poem
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A poem that expresses the main characters feelings.
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Meter
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A measured pattern of rythmic accents in poems.
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Octave
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An eight line unit.
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Sonnet
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A fourteen line poem in Iambic Pentameter.
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Syntax
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The grammatical order of words.
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Denotation
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The dictionary meaning of a word.
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Elison
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Ommision of an unstressed vowel or syllable.
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line.
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Stanza
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A section of a poem, like a paragraph.
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Sestina
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a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet
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