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22 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration ?
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The repetition of the same or similar sound sounds at the beginning of words.
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Examples: Tongue twisters; Tim’s took tons of tools to make toys for tots.
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Allusion ?
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a reference to a historical event.
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Examples: reference to biblical, mythological, etc.
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Assonance ?
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the repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowels .
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Example: Toungue twisters; Moses supposes his toes are roses.
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Ballad ?
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a poem that tells a story similar to folk or legend and often have repeated refrain.
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Example: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Blank Verse
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poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Example: Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse
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Carpe Diem
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Latin expression that meas "seize the day." Carpe Diem poems usually urge the reader to live for today and enjoy the pleasures of the moment.
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Example: "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ....." by Robert Herrick
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Figurative Language
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The international and imaginative use of words and comparisons that are not literal, but that create original, vivid, and often unexpected images and associations. Also called metaphorical language
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Example:
"Nature's first green is gold" ......................Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost |
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Hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis
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Example: “It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”
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Image (Imagery)
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an image is an expression or recreation through language of any experience perceived through the senses.
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Example: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth.
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Irony
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in general, a tone or figure of speech in which there is discrepancy between what is expressed and what is meant or expected. May be used to achieve powerful effect indirectly.
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Example: a bank robber robs a police station; that is ironic
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Lyric
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a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric a song in form or style.
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Example: "Italian Sonnet” by James DeFord
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, These comparisons do not use like of as.
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Examples: "The world's a stage" , "He was a lion in battle"
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words whose sound reflects their sense or meaning
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Example: "Buzz" , "Hiss", "Moan"
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Oxymoron
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a figure of speech in which two sharply contrasting terms are paired for emphasis or ironic effect.
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Examples: joyful sdness or eloquent sadness
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Personification
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a form of metaphor, or simile in which nonhuman things are given human qualities.
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Emaple: "The sunbeams smiled down upon us and danced happily as we walked through the park"
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Simile
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a figure of speech in which two things are compared using like or as.
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Example: Langston Hughes poem Harlem.
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symbol
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anything that stands for something else
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Example: The American flag stands for democracy
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Anaphora
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the repetition of the same word or group of words at the the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines
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Example: London by William Blake
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Cacophony
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discordant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllable, sometimes inadvertent, but often deliberately used in poetry for effect
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Example:n The opening lines of Fences
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Euphony
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Harmony or beauty of sound that provides a pleasuring effect to the ear, usually sought-for in poetry for effect.
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Example: To Autumn by John Keats
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Modulation
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the harmonious use of language relative to the variations of stress and pitch
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Phonetic symbolism
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Sound suggestiveness; the association of particular word-sounds with common areas of meaning so that other words of similar sounds come to be associated with those meanings. Also called sound symbolism, it is utilized by poets to achieve sounds appropriate to their significance.
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