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24 Cards in this Set
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
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Poetry
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Imaginative writing in which language, images, sound, and rhythm combine to create a special emotional effect.
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Refrain
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In some songs and poems a line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals.
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End-stopped line
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A line in which a pause occurs naturally at the end of a line.
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Irony
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The difference between the way things seem and the way they actually are.
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Meter
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Rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.
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Simile
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A figure of speech that uses the words, like or as, to directly compare two seemingly unlike things.
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Run-on-line
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In poetry, a line in which the meaning continues beyond the line.
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Rhyme
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The repetition of the same, or similar sounds.
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Repetition
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The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines.
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Figurative Language
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Imaginative language used for the effect and not to be taken as the literal truth.
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds.
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Lyric Poem
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A poem that expresses a personal thought or emotion. Most lyric poems are short and present vivid images.
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Imagery
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Language that appeals to the senses. Imagery is the combination or collection of images in a work of literature.
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech that compares or equates two basically different things.
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Narrative Poem
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A poem that tells a story.
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Rhythm
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The pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginning of words.
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Concrete Poem
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A poem shaped to look like its subject. The placement of letters, words, lines, and punctuation creates a striking visual effect.
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Limerick
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A humorous five-line poem that follows a specific form: three long lines (1,2,& 5) that rhyme and two short lines (3&4)that rhyme. A limerick also contains a regular rhythm, or pattern of beats.
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Haiku
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A three-line poem, usually on the subject of nature, with five syllables each in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line.
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Image
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A picture or likeness that is created with words. Images are most often visual, but they may appeal to any of the five senses.
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Theme
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The central idea of a literary work, usually expressed as a generalization about life.
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Stanza
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A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
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