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31 Cards in this Set
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Verse
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a unit of poetry (a stanza or line) OR a rhythmmical and metrical rhymed composition
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Tone
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the attitude the author adopts toward the subject and toward the audience
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Tone can be...
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formal or informal (because language used)
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Persona
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a literal mask (or a 2nd self created by the author and through whom the narravite is told)
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Examples of Personas
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Harper Lee- Scout
Sandra C.- Esperanza |
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Onomatopoeia
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word that by their sound suggests its meaning
(Boom, Buzz, Twirl) |
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Alliteration
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repetition of the initial consonant sounds or vowel sounds in successive syllables esspecially in stressed syllables (tongue twisters)
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Assonance
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same/ similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables (end with different consence sounds)
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Rhyme Scheme
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pattern with rhyming sounds
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how is rhyme scheme represented?
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with lower case letters
(aaa or aba or abab or aabb and so on) |
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meter
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the number of feet in a line OR recurrence in poetry of rhythmic pattern
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foot
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rthymic unit in a line
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label a stressed syllable with...
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'
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label an unstressed syllable with...
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U
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Iambic foot
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U'
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Trochaic Foot
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'U
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Monometer
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one foot
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Dimeter
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2 feet
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trimeter
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3 feet
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tetrameter
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4 feet
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pentameter
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5 feet
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hexameter
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6 feet
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heptameter
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7 feet
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Romeo and Juliet feet are...
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iambic pentameter
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Couplet
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2 consecutive lines with end rhymes (often has an idea within itself)
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When does Shakespear use couplets?
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at the end of a scene
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Sonnet
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a poem of 14 lines
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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divided into an octave (8 lines) and a seset (6 lines)
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Italian
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another name for the petrarchan sonnet
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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divided into a Quatrain (4 lines), another quatrain, another quatrain, and a cuplet (2 lines)
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English
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another name for a shakespearen sonnet
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