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17 Cards in this Set
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Concrete poem
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visually resembles the theme
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Parable
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brief, moral or religion lesson
Ex. bible |
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Parody
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amusing or mocking tone
ridicules use of alliteration imitates another piece of work |
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stanza
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subdivision in a poem
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(simple) Haiku
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japanese form 16th century
3 lines: five syllables in 1 and 3 7 in 2nd line |
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Couplet
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stanza of two lines-> rhyming
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Iamb
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unstressed and stressed syllables ( /
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archaism
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speech or writting that is no longer current
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Narritive Poem
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a poem which tells a story
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Meter
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regular pattern or unstressed and stressed syllables
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metonymy
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a word represents something else which it suggest
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Elegy
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lyric poem lamenting death
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Paradox
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statement that contradicts itself
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Epic
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major work dealing with important theme
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Synaesthesia
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sensory to descibe something
colour to describe a sound ex. "i heard a fly-buzz buy" ex. with blue, uncertain stumbling buzz |
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Connotation
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is its emotinal content
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Denotation
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word is its dictionary definition
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