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14 Cards in this Set
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Connotation
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The implied or suggested meaning connected with a word
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Rhyme
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Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or lines of verse
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for emphasis the opposite of understatement
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metonymy
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A closely related terms substituted for an object or item
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Pun
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Play on words or a humorous use of a single word or sound with two or more implied meanings
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Verbal irony
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Implying a meaning different from and often the complete opposite of the one that is explicitly stated often associated with sarcasm
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Symbol
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An object or action that stands for something beyond itself
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assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Narrative poetry
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Contains a plot
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Stanza
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Unit of a poem often related with the same form throughout a poem a unit of poetic lines verse paragraph
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End rhyme
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Occur at the end of a line
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Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
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The form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with the following rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd
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iambic pentameter
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A traditional form of a rising meter consisting of lines containing five iambic feet (and, thus, ten syllables)
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trochaic (trochee)
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A metrical foot containing two syllables the first is stressed while the second is unstressed
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