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33 Cards in this Set
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Understatement
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To represent as less than is the case.
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
e.g. Who copped the copper clapper? |
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Diction
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Writer's or speaker's choice of words
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Rhythm or Music
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the recurrence of a beat is called the rythym or musin of a poem; it is altered by shifts in meter, in diction, in pauses.
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Sound Patterns
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Poetry, like music, is the arrangement of sounds, but with words.
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blank Verse
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Poetry
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Type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader's emotions and imagination.
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Symbolism
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Person, place, thing, or event that stands both for something beyond itself.
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Hyperbole
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Figure of speech that uses exaggertion to express strong emotion or create a comic effect.
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Narrative Poem
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Tells a story (usually written in blank verse or free verse) concerns a series of events and usually has elements of a short stroy.
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Connotation
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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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Accent
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The emphasis in any word or syllable.
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Apostrophe
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The addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically
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Onomatopoeia
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Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. e.g. Hiss, hoot, meow,murmur
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Foot
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The basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry; generally consisting of 2 or 3 syllables, one of which is accented.
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Consonance
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Repetition of consonants at the end of stressed syllables.
e.g. Wilting lilies lollygag in July. |
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Allusion
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Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts.
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Sonnet
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A lyric poem with a traditional form of 14 iambic pentameter lines.
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Dactylic
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One stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables.(dumm de de)
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Lyric Poem
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Short poem which expresses intense personal feeling.
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Metrical Line
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consists of one or more feet and is named for the number of feet in a line.
Monometer-1 foot Dimeter-2 feet Trimeter-3 feet Tetrameter-4 feet Pentameter-5 feet Hexameter-6 feet Heptameter-7 feet Octameter-8 feet |
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
e.g. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. |
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Simile
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Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
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Free Verse
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has no meter or regular rhythm scheme
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Ambiguity
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Capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways.
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Trochaic
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One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.(dumm de)
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Figurative language
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The opposite of literal language. Calls on the reader to use his imagination to complete the author's meaning
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Pun
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Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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Iambic
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One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.(de dumm)
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Denotation
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Literal meaning
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Anapestic
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2 unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.(de de dumm)
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Personification
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Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
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Metaphor
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Comparing two unlike things w/o using like or as
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