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45 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words in close proximity
Example: "light lies" from "Tulips" |
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds in words near each other; these are usually in stressed sounds
Example: "a great scapegoat" from "Stings" and "blunt, clumsy stumblers" |
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Consonance
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Consonant sounds repeated at the ends of words
Example: "Oval soul-animals" from Balloons |
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Cacophony
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A series of harsh sounds
Example: "It stuck in a barb wire snare" from "Daddy" |
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Euphony
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A series of pleasant sounds communicating a harmony
Example: "Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love for me" from "Tulips" |
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like what they mean
Example: "Giving a shriek and pop" from "Balloons" |
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Repetition
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Using the same word or phrase again and again
Example: "my fear, my fear, my fear" from "The Bee Meeting" |
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Rhyme
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Words with repeated ending sounds
Example: "neat and sweet" from "Stings" |
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Rhythm
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Organization of speech rhythms in patterns of accented and unaccented syllables
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Meter
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Organized voice patterns, including the arrangement of stresses and frequency
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Syllables
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A unit consisting of one vowel sound; it can either be stressed or unstressed
Example: "Ax-es" from "Words" |
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Allegory
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Words/ text representative of an abstract meaning
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Metonymy
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A person, place, or thing referred to as something associated with it
Example: "this suit" from "The Applicant" |
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Oxymoron
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Two contradicting words placed together
Example: "Lady Lazarus" |
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Paradox
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A contradiction of ideas revealing a truth
Example: "the murderess into a heaven that loves her" from "The Bee Meeting" |
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Personification
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An object, animal, or idea is given human qualitites
Example: "Since Christmas they [balloons] have lived with us" from "Balloons" |
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Pun
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Words that sound the same, yet have entirely different definitions
Example: "Stupid pupil" from "Tulips" |
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Simile
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A comparison (using "like" or "as"" of two unlike entities
Example: "lips like lies" from "Stings" |
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Symbol
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An entity is representative of a larger idea or significance
Example: Tulips as symbol of life in "Tulips" |
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Synecdoche
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A part of an entity represents the whole
Example: "These are my hands/My knees" (representing the "same, identical woman") from "Lady Lazarus" |
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Point of view
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The perspective of the speaker; the voice could be either 1st person, 3rd person limited, or 3rd person omniscient
Example: "I am too pure" from "Fever 103" |
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Speaker
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Who is telling the story or poem
Example: Executive super salesman in "The Applicant" |
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Line
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Arrangement of the series of metrical feet
Example: "You do not do, you do not do" first line in "Daddy" |
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Allusion
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A reference to a historical, mythological, or well-known situation/character
Example: "I lay my ear to furious Latin./I am not Caesar." from "The Arrival of the Bee Box" |
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Ambiguity
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A word or phrase with more than one meaning; even within one conterxt there are often deeper meanings
Example: "Somebody's done for." from "Death & Co" |
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Analogy
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A comparison of something familiar to unfamiliar
Example: "square as a chair" from "The Arrival of the Bee Box" "Naked as paper" From "The Applicant" |
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Apostrophe
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Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object, addressing him/it by name
Example: "Your small/Brother" (addressing his sister) from "Balloons" |
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Cliché
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A widely known and overused figure of speech
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Connotation
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Emotional, psychological, social associations with a word
Example: The title of "Balloons" connotes childhood, innocence, and celebration |
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Contrast
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Arranging opposites/very different ideas near eachother
Example: "through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby./Their redness talks to my wound" and "They seem to float, though they weigh me down" from "Tulips" |
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Denotation
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The dictonary/ literal definition of a word
Example: in "The Bee Box" what this means |
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Euphemism
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An understatement; lessening an effect so it is less offensive or hurtful
Example: "And comes from a country far away as health." From "Tulips" |
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for effect
Example: "with one grey toe/Big as a Frisco seal" from "Daddy" |
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Irony
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A contradictory statement/situation revealing a different reality than what had been assumed true
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things, stating one is or performs the action of another
Example: "My body is a pebble to them" from "Tulips" "The throats of our wrists brave lilies" from "Stings" |
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Stanza
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Lines of a poem arranged as a unit, separated by blank lines
Example: "Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances." from "Ariel" |
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Rhetorical Question
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A question used for effect that does not require an answer
Examples: "Will you marry it?" from "The Applicant" "Where has she been, With her lion-red body, her wings of glass?" from "Stings" |
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern created by the arrangement of rhymes; e.g. aabb denotes two rhymed lines followed by another two lines rhyming each other
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Enjambment
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The continuation of the grammatical construction/logical sense of an idea further than a line
Example: "Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of..." frfom "Edge" |
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Form
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The arrangement and structure of a poem compared to established conventions; e.g. open, closed, blank verse, free verse
Example: Plath's poetry is mainly written in free verse |
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Free Verse
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Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure; all are appropriately chosen by the poet
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Imagery
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Vivid language used to evoke mental images or ideas; there can be correlation with any of the five senses.
Example: "Tongues of dull, fat Cerberus/Who wheezes at the gate. Incapable/ Of licking clean/The aguey tendon" from "Fever 103" |
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Synesthesia
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Fusing different senses in that one kind of sense impression words describe another
Example: "The bees are flying. They taste like spring." from "Wintering" |
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Tone
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By which the poet's attitudes and feelings are revealed, culminating from language used; described by emotions or attitudes including: ironic, loving, condescending, solemn, etc. Also it can be conveyed as voice inflection evident through diction, connotations, rhythm
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Mood
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The feelings evoked by the poem, i.e. the atmosphere created
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