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16 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem.
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Allusion
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Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem.
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Couplet
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
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Epic
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Long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
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Fable
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Very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about how to get along in life.
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Free Verse
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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. It may use internal rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, refrain, and parallel structure.
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Metaphor
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Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than or resembles.
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Simile
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Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
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Irony
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Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality -between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.
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Onomatopoeia
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Use of a ward whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning.
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Personification
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Kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
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Refrain
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Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
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Internal rhyme
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Occur in the middle of a line.
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Symbol
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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
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Theme
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Central idea of a work of literature.
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