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59 Cards in this Set
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Verse
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A single line of poetry
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Paraphrase
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The restatement in one's own words of what one understands a poem says
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Theme
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A generally recurring subject or idea noticeable in a literary work.
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Lyric poem
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A short poem expressing the thoughts or feelings of a single speaker
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Narrative poem
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A poem that tells a story.
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Dramatic monologue
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A poem written as a speech by a character at some decisive moment
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Didactic poem
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A poem intended to teach a moral lesson
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Tone
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The mood in a literary work
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Satiric poetry
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Poetry that blends criticism with humor to convey a message.
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Persona
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A fictitious character made by the author to be the speaker in a literary work
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Irony
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A discrepancy in what is said and what is meant.
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Verbal irony
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When a speaker or writer says the opposite of what is actually meant
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Sarcasm
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Bitter irony made to hurt or mock its target
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Dramatic irony
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A situation in which larger implications of a characters words or actions are unrealized by the character but seen by the author and audience
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Cosmic irony
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The contrast between a characters position or aspiration and the treatment he or she receives at the hands of a seemingly hostile fate
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Diction
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Word choice or vocabulary
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Concrete diction
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Specific words that name or describe things
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Abstract diction
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Words that express general ideas
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Allusion
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A breif reference in a text to a person, place or thing.
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Denotation
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The literal, dictionary definition of a word
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Connotation
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An association or additional meaning to a word
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Imagery
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The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work
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Image
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A word or series of words that refers to sensory experience. Typically sight but can include smell, sound etc
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Simile
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A comparison of two things using like or as. Compares two things that don't appear alike at first but are shown to have a resembelance.
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Metaphor
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A statement that one thing is something else when it really isn't.
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Implied Metaphor
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A metaphor that uses neither connectives or to be.
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Mixed metaphor
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The combining of two or more incompatible metaphors, resulting in nonsense.
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Personification
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Giving a nonhuman entity human like characteristics.
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Apostrophe
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A direct address to someone
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Overstatement / Hyperbole
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Extreme exaggeration
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Understatement
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Deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the case.
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Rime
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Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sound.
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Consonance / Slant Rime
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Linked words share similar consonant sounds but have different vowel sounds.
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Internal Rime
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Rime that occurs within a line of poetry
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End Rime
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Rime that occurs at the end of a line of poetry
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Masculine Rime
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A rime of one syllable words or a rime that stresses the final syllables
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Feminine Rime
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A rime of two or more syllables with stress on a syllable other than the last
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Stress / Accent
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An emphasis placed on a syllable in speech.
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Rhythm
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The recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem.
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Prosody
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The study of metrical structures in poetry
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Scansion
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A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem via separation of metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents and indicating the censuras.
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Censura
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A light but definite pause within a line of verse.
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Run on line
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A line of verse that does not end in punctuation, but carries on grammatically to the next line.
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End-stopped line
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A line of verse that ends in a full pause, denoted by a mark of punctuation.
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Form
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The way a literary work expresses content.
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Fixed form
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A traditional verse form requiring certain predetermined elements of structure
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Closed form
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Poetry writtin in a pattern of meter, rimes, lines or stanzas.
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Open form
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Verse with no scheme
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Blank verse
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Contains five iambic feet per line and is not rimed.
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Couplet
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A two line stanza in poetry, typically rimed with equal line length
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Closed couplet
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Two rimed lines of iambic pentameter that typically contain a complete thought.
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Quatrain
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A stanza of four lines
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Epic
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A long narrative poem telling the adventures of a popular hero
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Epigram
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A short comedic poem
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Free verse
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Lines that do not follow consistent meter
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Symbol
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A person, place or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense.
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Allegory
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A narrative description in which the literal events consistently point to parallel sequences of ideas, values etc.
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Symbolic act
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An action whose significance goes well beyond its literal meaning.
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Conventional symboles
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Symbols that have attained a standard significance due to frequent use.
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