English 2 Poetry Test

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lyric poetry

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one central idea expressed by a single speaker

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narrative poetry

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someone telling the story

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dramatic poetry

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speaker has a role in drama

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tone

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speaker's attitude toward the subject

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verbal irony

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speaker says something opposite of what they mean

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dramatic irony

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does something unrealistic/unaware but audience is

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connotation

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associations or feelings that a word evokes

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denotation

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dictionary definition

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cosmic irony

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what happens is the opposite of what is expected

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simile

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comparison using like or as

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metaphor

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comparison without using like oras

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implied metaphor

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authr will not directly state the comparison but it is shown

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personification

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human characteristics

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allusion

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reference to any person, place, or thing (fictuos, historical, actual)

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synecdoche

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use of significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa.

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metonymy

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substitue something closely associated with it

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hyperbole

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exaggeration

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symbol

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physical thing to represent idea or feeling

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alliteration

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use of the same consanat at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

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assonance

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repitition of vowel sounds

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consonance

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repitition of consanant sound at the end of word

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onomatopoeia

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sound is meaning

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cacophony

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stop sounds

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euphony

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continuous sounds

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slant rhyme

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last consanant sound is the same in two words

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meter

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beat of poem

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persona

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speaker or narrator

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sarcasm

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irony

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imagery

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scene the poet creates with throughout the poem

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diction

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word choice

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implied metaphor

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direct comparison isnt stated but it is shown

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apostrophe

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direct address to someone or something that cannot respond

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understatement

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minimize the importance of something

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paradox

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statement seems to be untrue bc it contradicts itself but has an alternate meaning as a whole

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rhyme

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words with the same ending (assonance and consanance)

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rhyme scheme

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how the poem rhymes

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internal rhyme

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at least one word in the middle of the line that rhymes with another word within the poem

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end rhyme

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rhyming words at the end of the line