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20 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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it's a repetition of a consonant sound.
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Assonance
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a similarity between internal vowels.
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Blank Verse
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Poem composed of lines of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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A strong pause within a line of verse.
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Closed form
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A type of form structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.
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Couplet
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two phrases that rhyme.
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Dactyl
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a metrical foot consisting of one syllable two unaccented.
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Epic
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a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.
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Figurative Language
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Contrast with literal speech or language.
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Foot
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A reference, explanation, or comment placed below the main text on a printed page.
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Free verse
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a poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
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Image
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A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.
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Lyric poem
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A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling.
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Metaphor
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A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as.
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Meter
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the measured pattern of rhymic accents in poem.
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
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Personification
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giving human qualities to non-living things.
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Quatrain
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a four-line stanza in a poem.
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Ode
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a long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form.
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Epigram
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a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement or line of verse.
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