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20 Cards in this Set
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Assonance
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Two words that have the same vowel stressed
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Denotation
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The direct meaning of a word
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Diction
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The style or way the author uses words in his writing
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Foil
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Two contrasting characters
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Octave
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A spacing of eight
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Meter
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The pattern of stressed syllables (the beat of the poem)
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Recognition
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The realization of a situation
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Satire
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Using a metaphor to make a point
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Ballad
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A short simple song with the same melody all the way through
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Syntax
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A grammatical order of words (subject, verb...)
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Onomatopoeia
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A word formed by what it sounds like (Ex.wee,wee)
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Quatrain
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A poem with four lines that usually change rhymes
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Elegy
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A sad poem (Ex.funeral poem)
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Denouement
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The outcome of the heroes quest
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Enjambment
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When a sentence in a poem goes over multiple lines
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Epigram
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A one subject (political) poem makes fun of something(witty)
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Falling Meter
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In a poem that has the stressed syllables go to the beat, the syllables after it continually get less stressed.
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Hyperbole
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Obvious exaggeration
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Iamb
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A 2 syllable beat where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed (opposite of falling meter)
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Metonymy
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An expression that means something different (Ex.count heads, count people)
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