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29 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with the meaning that lie outside the narrative.
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words
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Allusion
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a brief reference to a person, event, or place or work of art
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Apostrophe
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when an absent person, abstract concept, or important object is directly addressed
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Assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds but no consonant sounds
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Conceit
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an elaborate metaphor
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Consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds but not vowel sounds
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Free verse
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verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter
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hyperbole
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exaggeration or overstatement
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imagery
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that evokes on or all five senses
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irony
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an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
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litote
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understatement for intensification
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metaphor
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comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
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meter
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the rhythmic pattern produced when words are arranged so that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more regular sequence
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metonymy
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substituting a word for another word closely associated with it
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ode
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lyric poem used to praise and glorify
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onomatopoeia
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word that imitates the sound it represents
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paradox
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kind of truth which at first seems contradictory; two opposing ideas
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personification
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giving human qualities to animals or objects
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rhyme
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similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines
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scansion
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the analysis of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem in order to establish it meter
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simile
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comparison of two things using like or as
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sonnet
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a 14 line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme
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stanza
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unified group of lines in poetry
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symbol
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an abject or action that means something more than its literal meaning
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synecdoche
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using a part to represent a whole
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synesthesia
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another sense besides the normal sense to describe something
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tone
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writer’s attitude toward a subject or character
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Tone
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writers attitude towards a subject or matter
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