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50 Cards in this Set
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Simile
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Simile is used as a means of comparison. The comparison is expressed by the word like, as, than,similar to, resembles, or seems. Both the figurative and literal terms are named
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Metaphor
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Metaphor is used for comparison but, unlike simile, the comparison is not expressed.
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Personification
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Giving the attributes of human being to animal, object, or concept
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Apostrophe
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Addresing someone absent or dean or something non human as if they were present or aive
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Synecdoche
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Using a part for the whole. Instead of US armed forces, uses the U.S. attacked guatamala
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Metonymy
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The use of something closely realted to the actual thing meant. The sails crossed the ocean would be an example
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Symbol
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Something meaning more than what it literalyl is
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Allegory
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A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface.
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Paradox
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An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true
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Overstatement/hyperbole
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Exaggeration in service of truth
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Undestatement
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saying less than one means
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Sarcasm
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Ridicule that is simply bitter and is intended to hurt the feelings of the recipient
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Satire
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Ridicule with the purpose of bringing about reform
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Dramatic Irony
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What the speaker says versus what the poet means
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Irony of situation
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Difference of actual circumstances and those that one anticipates
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Allusion
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A reference to something historical or prevelant in literature
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Total Meaning
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Total Meaning of the poem, the experience it communicates
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Prose Meaning
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The literal meaning of the poem
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Tone
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Poet's attitude towards subject
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Alliteration
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The repetition of initial consants
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Assonance
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Rep. of vowel sounds
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Consonance
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rep. of final consonant sounds
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RHyme
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Rep. of accented vowel sounds and any suceeding consonant sounds
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Masculine Rhyme/Feminine rhyme
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Masculine- only one symbol
Feminine-Two or more |
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Internal/End rhyme
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Internal-Within the line
End- At the end of the lines |
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Approximate Rhyme
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Word with any kind of sound similarity
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Rhythm
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Wavelike recurrance of motion or sound
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Accented/Stressed
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Syllables that are given more prominance than the rest
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Rhetorical Streses
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Message conveyed through pronunciation
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End-stopped line/Run-on
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LIne ending is natural speech pause
Run-on- Line moves without pause |
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Caesuras
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Stops that occur within the lines
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Free Verse
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Poetry with stops aywhere, differences between prose rhythms
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Prose Poem
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Even Rhythem throughout poem
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Meter
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Identifying Characheterisic of rhytmic language
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Foot
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One unit of meter
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Iambic
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Unstresseted followed by stresed
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Trochaic
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Stressed followed by unstressed
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Anapest
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Un-Un-Stressed
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Dactyl
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Stressed-Un-Un
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Spondaic
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Double Stressed (true blue)
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Stanza
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A group of lines with a constant meterical pattern
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Metrical Variation
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Substitution-Replacing foot with another
Extra-meterical syllables- added meters at begining/end of lines Truncation-Ommosionof unaccented syllable at either end of line |
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Scansion
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Process of Defining the form of t he meter
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words that sound like what they mean
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Phonetic Intensives
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Sound connects with their meanings. The fl- sound associated with the idea of moving light (flame, flicker)
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Synesthesia
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The stimulation of two or more sense timulatenously
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Limerick
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Pattern of aa3, bb2, a3
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Italian, Petrachan sonnet
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14 lines, 8=abbaabba- the octave
6=cdcdcd or cdecde-sestet |
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English Sonnet
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14 lines, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
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Villanelle
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Two rhyme sounds and nineteen lines in 5 three line stanzas and a final four. A1bA2 abA1 abA2 AbA1, AbA2 abA1A2
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