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20 Cards in this Set
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ballad
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Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes
And loving spirits in its plenisphere Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre. |
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complication
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When drafted, he argued that standard time, not DST, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware in the year of his birth.
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connotation
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the color red which originated with the neolithic hunter peoples and continued with the ancient Germans starts to change around 1500
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couplet
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It’s full of love’s unending song.
The night is short, though it seems long. |
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denotation
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And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. |
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denouement
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One sits on a fence post,
another atop a telephone pole that sways as it throws its big-breasted body around. They scattered to these perches when I opened the door, knowing the squeak would pry them from the neighbor's cat, stiff on the road, one eye bulging. |
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elegy
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There the Swahili
open his doors, let loose thru the trees the tides of Death’s sound and distil from their leaves the terrible red. |
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epigram
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I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies. |
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foil
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in Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras
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foot
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an iamb has 2 of these
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hyperbole
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"Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world" |
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lyric poem
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I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. |
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narrative
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When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. |
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octave
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How do you know you cannot fly higher
Until you take that first step into space? The Eagle started as an egg, That became a blind chick, And now she looks from her lofty perch, Regally on humanity below, Remembering that breathless moment When she took that first leap. |
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ode
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----- To Cheese,
which Makes Us Smile, When Camera's go Clack. |
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onomatopoeia
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Boom!
Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher. Rip! Went the plastic bag. |
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personification
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"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew. |
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pyrrhic
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Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow |
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sonnet
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What guile is this, that those her golden tresses
She doth attire under a net of gold; And with sly skill so cunningly them dresses, That which is gold or hair, may scarce be told? Is it that men’s frail eyes, which gaze too bold, She may entangle in that golden snare; And being caught may craftily enfold Their weaker hearts, which are not yet well aware? Take heed therefore, mine eyes, how ye do stare Henceforth too rashly on that guileful net, In which if ever ye entrapped are, Out of her bands ye by no means shall get. Folly it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. |
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stanza
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--------consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.
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