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15 Cards in this Set
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STANZA
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RHYTHM
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poetry is just like rhythm in music: the pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables and pauses. It’s the arrangement of the beats.
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FOOT
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single rhythmic unit. It is one stressed syllable (or “beat”) and one or more unstressed syllables.
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METER
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refers to the number of feet in a line of poetry.
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SIGHT
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two words look alike but don’t sound alike, such as “LOVE” and “JOVE” or “DAUGHTER” and “LAUGHTER.”
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SLANT (rhyme)
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two words are nearly rhymed but slightly different, such as “LAKE” and “FATE.”
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IDENTICAL
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two words are spelled differently but have the same pronunciation (also called homonyms), such as “TWO” and “TOO” or “RITE” and “RIGHT.”
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END
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the rhyming words occur at the ends of lines of poetry.
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INTERNAL(rhyme)
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the rhyme occurs inside a line, such as –“Let’s BEAT the HEAT.”
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IMAGERY
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consists of discriptive words and phrases; re-create sensory experiences
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SYMBOLISM
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a symbol is a person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself.
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ALLITERATION
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is the repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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SIMILE
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a figure of speech that makes a compraison between two unlike things using the word like or as.
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METAPHOR
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basicly unlike but have something in commen.
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RHYME SCHEME
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simply means the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.
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