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44 Cards in this Set
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What is an agreement?
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It is a correct match between parts of speech in a sentence.
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What is alliteration?
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It is the repetition of initial sounds.
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What is an anapest?
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It is a pattern of three syllables with the accent on the third syllable.
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What is an antecedent?
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It is a noun or noun phrase that is replaced by a pronoun later in the sentence or in a nearby sentence.
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What is a ballad?
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It is a poem that tells a story, usually in short rhyming verses with frequent repetition of words or lines.
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What is a ballad stanza?
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It's a stanza that usually consists of:
1. An abab or abcb rhyme scheme. 2. A 4 line stanza, known as a quatrain. 3. Alternating lines of 4 pairs of syllables (called tetrameter), for a total of 8 syllables, and 3 pairs of syllables (called trimeter) for a total of 6 six syllables. Each pair is accented on the second syllable. |
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What does compact mean?
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It means to pack a lot of ideas into very few words.
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What is the connotation of a word?
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It is all the associations the readers have with that word.
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What is a couplet?
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It is two adjacent lines of poetry, usually rhyming.
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What is the denotation of a word?
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It is the literal meaning of the word in context.
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What is a descriptive essay?
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It is a piece of nonfiction writing that portrays a person, place, object, or moment in time using vivid details to create a mental picture in the reader's mind.
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What is diction?
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It is the pattern of word choice and arrangement in a particular piece of writing.
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What is an elegy?
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It is a form of lyric poetry that involves a meditation on life and death.
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What is a figure of speech?
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It is a combination of words in which the words communicate more than just their literal meaning.
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What is free verse?
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It is a type of poetry that differs from structured verse in that it is 'free' of structured rhythm, rhyme, and line lengths.
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What is haiku?
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It's a traditional Japanese form of verse, and perhaps the shortest form of lyric poetry. It has three lines, each having 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.
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What is an iamb?
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It is a two syllable pair with the accent on the second syllable.
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What is iambic pentameter?
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It is a ten syllable line of poetry consisting of five pairs of syllables known as iambs.
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What is imagery?
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It is a series of images.
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What is an indefinite pronoun?
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It is a pronoun that does not refer to a specific person or group of people.
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What is lyric poetry?
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It is short, personal, and deeply emotional poetry that covers the big ideas like love, death, and beauty.
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What is a limerick?
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It is a type of verse (often 'nonsense' verse) with, usually, a five line stanza, the rhyme scheme 'aabba', and a specific rhythmic pattern.
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What is a metaphor?
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It is a figure of speech that says that one object is exactly the same as another.
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What is meter?
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It is the fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry that produces its rhythm.
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What is a motif?
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It is a represented theme or idea.
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What is a narrative?
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It is a story.
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What is a narrative poem?
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It is a poem that tells a story and has a beginning, middle, end, and some kind of conflict.
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What is an ode?
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It is a serious, intricate, and highly emotion poem of high praise.
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What is personification?
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It is attaching human qualities to abstractions or objects in writing.
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What is a pronoun?
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It is a part of speech that takes the place of a nearby noun or noun phrase.
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What is a quatrain?
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It is a four line stanza.
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What is a refrain?
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It is a repeated section in a poem or song.
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What is a rhyme?
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It is a similarity in sound.
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What is a rhyme scheme?
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It is a repeating pattern of rhyme.
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What is rhythm?
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It is a repeating pattern of syllables and accents.
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What is a simile?
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It is a figure of speech that compares two different things, usually in a phrase containing the word 'like', 'as', or 'than'.
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What is a sonnet?
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It is a short, personal, and deeply emotional form of lyric poetry that has fourteen lines.
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What is a stanza?
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It is a section or division of a poem.
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What is structure?
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It is a repeating pattern of elements such as stanza length, rhyme, or repetition.
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What is structured poetry?
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It is poetry containing repeating patterns of elements such as stanza length, rhyme, or repetition.
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What is tetrameter?
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It is four pairs of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable.
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What is trimeter?
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It is three pairs of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable.
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What is a villanelle?
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It is a nineteen line poem, with a complex structure of five triplets (three line stanzas) and an ending quatrain. The 1st and 3rd lines of the 1st triplet are repeated in a particular pattern.
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What is a volta?
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It is a shift in the subject matter or tone of the first twelve lines of an English sonnet.
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