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51 Cards in this Set
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alliteration
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repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words
ex: "descending dewdrops" |
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allusion
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brief cultural reference to a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea in history or literature
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ambiguity
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allows for 2 or more simultaneous interpretations of a word that can be supported by the context of a work
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apostrophe
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an address to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker
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approximate rhyme
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the sounds are almost but not exactly alike
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assonance
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repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words
ex: "asleep under a tree" |
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ballad
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tells a story that is sung
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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ballad stanza
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alternating 8 and 6 syllable linesc
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cacophony
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lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce
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caesura
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a pause within a line
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carpe diem
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"sieze the day"
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cliches
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ideas or expressions that have become overused
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connotation
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associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning
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consonance
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identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound
ex: "home, same" "worth, breath" |
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controlling metaphor
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comparisons throughout the entire poem
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couplet
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consists of 2 lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter
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colloquial
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conversation that includes slang expressions not used by the culture at large
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denotation
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literal, dictionary meanings
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dialect
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form of informal diction
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didactic poetry
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designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson
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doggerel
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lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed
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dramatic monologue
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character (the speaker) addressed a silent audience in such a way as to reveal unintentionally some aspect of his or her personality
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sestina
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usually does not rhyme, fixed form
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elegy
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used to describe a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead
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villanelle
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fixed form consisting of 19 lines of any lengths divided into 6 stanzas
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end rhyme
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most common form, comes at the end of lines
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internal rhyme
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places at least one of the rhymed words within the line
ex: "dividing and gliding and sliding" |
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feminine rhyme
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consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables
ex: "butter, clutter" |
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eye rhyme
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spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are not
ex: "bough, cough" |
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exact rhymes
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share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel
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masculine rhyme
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rhyming of single-syllable words
ex: "glade, shade" |
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near rhyme/off rhyme/approximate rhyme
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sounds are almost but not exactly the same
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ode
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serious topic and formal tone
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end-stopped line
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when a line has a pause at its end
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enjambment
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running over from one line to another
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run-on line
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line that ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning
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feminine ending
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line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable
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masculine ending
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line that ends with a stressed syllable
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scansion
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consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern
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literary ballad
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narrative form
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onomatopoeia
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use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes
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euphony
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lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth
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fixed form
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poem that can be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas
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free verse
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poems that do not conform to establish patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
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terza rima
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consists of an interlocking 3-line rhyme scheme
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quatrain
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a 4-line stanza
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sonnet
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"little song", consists of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter
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english sonnet
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"shakespearean sonnet", organized into 3 quatrains and a couplet
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metonymy
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something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it
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jargon
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job or trade
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