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34 Cards in this Set
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literary canon |
these works considered by scholars,critics, and teachers to be the most important to read and study. |
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doggerel |
poetry that is irregularly in rhythm or rhyme. |
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paraphrase |
prose or restatement of the idea in a poem |
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lyric |
a brief musical poem expressing personal emotion |
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epic |
long narrative poem chronicling heroic deeds or important events |
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allusion |
reference to something outside the text |
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formal diction |
dignified, impersonal elevated |
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middle diction |
language spoken by most educated people
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informal diction |
conversational, slang |
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denotation |
dictionary definition |
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connotation |
associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning-- these are usually public, not private meanings. |
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persona |
a speaker created by the poet |
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syntax |
word order to make specific reasons |
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implied metaphor |
one of the two things being compared is not named but is rather hinted at or alluded to |
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extended metaphor |
a comparison that lasts for a long portion of the poem |
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controlling metaphor |
an extended metaphor that lasts for the entire poem |
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vehicle |
that to which the first part is compared; the thing we are trying to understand |
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pun |
a play on words; one word has two meanings |
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synechdoche |
a part of something is used to signify the whole |
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metonymy |
something closely related with a subject is substituted for it. |
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apostrophe |
an address to something that is not there |
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hyperbole |
a deliberate overstatement |
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paradox |
a statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but,after close inspection makes sense. |
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oxymoron |
two contradictory words used to together |
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spoonerism |
transposing the initial consonants |
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onomatopoeia |
words that sounds like what it means |
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alliteration |
repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words. |
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consonance |
repetition of internal consonance sounds in nearby words |
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euphony |
sounds that are musically pleasant |
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cacophony |
sounds that are musically discordant/difficult |
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full/exact rhyme |
both the consonant and vowel sound are repeated |
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slant or half rhyme |
both the consonant and vowel sounds are repeated |
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eye rhyme |
words that are spelled alike but do not sound alike |
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Ekphrasis |
poems written in response to visual art |
