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32 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Two or more words in a line where the first letters are the same |
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Allusion |
An indirect reference to literary, historical, and religious subjects |
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Analogy |
Extended/working metaphor |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing an absent person or personified thing as though it were present |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds |
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Ballad |
Narrative poem about universal themes with rhythm and rhyme. Meant to be sung |
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Blank verse |
Poem written in iambic pentameter without rhyme |
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Epic |
A long poem that is often about a heroic character |
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Euphony |
Please try or soft sounding words |
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Cacophony |
Harsh sounding words |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonance sounds |
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Free verse |
Poem without a set meter and rhyme scheme |
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Hyperbole |
Extended exaggeration used for effect |
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Imagery |
Using descriptive words to appeal to the five senses |
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Irony |
Saying one thing but meaning the opposite |
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Lyrical |
Poem expressing personal thoughts and feelings/emotions |
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Metaphor |
A direct comparison using identification or substitution |
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Metonymy |
One word or phrase is substituted for another with with it is closely related |
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Ode |
Serious poem dedicated to an occasion or an admired person/ thing |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words that suggests the sound of the thing described |
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Oxymoron |
Two opposite words placed side by side |
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Paradox |
A statement that seems self contradictory but revels truth |
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Personification |
Giving a non living thing a human quality |
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Refrain |
A phrase or verse that repeats |
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Rhyme scheme |
The rhyme pattern in a poem |
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Simile |
A comparison using like or as |
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Sonnet |
Lyric poem that are 14 lines with many other rules |
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Speaker |
The persona in the poem |
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Stanza |
Group of lines in poetry like a paragraph |
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Symbol |
An object that represents a theme |
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Synecdoche |
A part is substituted for the whole |
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Theme |
The main idea of the poem |
