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14 Cards in this Set
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Mood
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The feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.
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The poem "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant, the mood is sad/disturbing
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Tone
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Authors feelings toward the subject.
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Sunshine and rainbows
Mood is happy and bright. |
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Assonance
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Repeating internal vowel sounds.
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"Hear the mellow wedding bells."
-Edgar Allen Poe |
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Consonance
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Repeating consonant sounds within a phrase or verse, not at the beginning of a word.
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Lily laid lazily thinking of lilacs.
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Alliteration
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Repeating initial (beginning) consonant sounds.
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Singing somber songs as if no one had sung them before.
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Stanzas
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A division of 4 or more line having a fixed length.
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My head's under water but
I'm breathing fine. Your crazy and I'm out of my mind. -John Legend All of Me |
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Rhyme
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A repetition of similar words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.
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Just want to make it to heaven
Just want to make it in I just want to cross that river I want to be free from sin |
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Scheme
(Rhyme) |
The pattern of end rhyme in a stanza or an entire poem.
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I have a dog
Who plays in a bog He sleeps on a log And every once in while he drinks eggnog. |
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed poetry written in rhythmic pattern.
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Head under water...
And you tell me.... To breathe easy for a while. Breathing get harder Even I know that. |
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Iambic Pentameter
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Poetry where each line has 5 feet; each foot(beat) contains 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable.
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To life lets raise a glass and cheer.
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Enjambment
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When one line of poetry ends without a pause because the thought continues onto the next line.
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Dreams are meant to be
pursued and not to just age and die. |
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Meter
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Defined as the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
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Monometer=One meter
Di-meter=Two meters Tri-meter=Three meters Tetrameter=Four meters Pentameter=Five meters Hexameter=Six meters |
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Iamb
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unstressed/stressed.
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To Go
Unstressed stressed |
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Trochee
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stressed/unstressed
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Rest room
stressed unstressed |
