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47 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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Assonance
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Repetion of vowel sounds within words.
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Consonance
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Repetion of consonant sounds within and at the end of words
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that imitate sounds
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Meter
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Repetion of a regular rhythic unit in a line of poetry
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Refrain
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Recurrence of words,phrases or lines. Also known as repetion
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Rhythm
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Flow of sound created by the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Caesura
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A pause in a line of poetry
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Rhyme
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Similarities of sound between words
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Rhyme Scheme
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Pattern of the end line
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End Rhyme
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Rhyme that comes at the end
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Internal rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
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Slant rhyme
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Words that should sound the same but they dont
EX:Prove & Love |
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Conventional forms
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Poetry that follow certain rules
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Free Verse
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Poetry that doesnt have regular patterns
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Blank Verse
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Poem that doesnt have words that dont rhyme Iambic pentameter
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Lyric
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Short poem a single speaker expresses thoughts and feelings emotionally
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Quatrain
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4 line stanza
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Epic
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Long story about a hero
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Narrative
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Poe that tells a story using elements of character, setting and plot to develop a theme
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Ballad
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Poem that is meant to be sung
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Protest
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Poem written to persuade people to support certain political cause
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Sonnet
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14 line lyris poem
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Octave
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First 8 lines of a sonnet
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Sestet
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Last 6 lines of a sonnet
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Ode
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Lyric poem written to someone in serious tone
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Elegy
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Poem about morning or death
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Psalm
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Sacred or religios song or poem
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Dramatic
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Poem that creates character through dialogue or monologue
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Form
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Physical arrangement of words in poem
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Structures
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Arrangment of words and lines to produce a desire effect
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Stanza
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Group of lines to form a unit looks like paragraph
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Verse
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One line in a poem
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Couplet
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2 line group of poetry
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Foot
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Rhythmic unit in poetry
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Parallelism
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When speaker expresses ideas of equal worth w/ same grammatical form
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Imagery
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Descripted words to give the reader a sensory experinces
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Speaker
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Voice that talks to the reader
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Persona
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Fictional character involved to play the role of the speaker
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Metaphor
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Figure of speech that compares 2 things that have something in common
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Simile
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Comparison using like or as
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Enjambent
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One sentence that makes up multiple lines in a poem
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Inversion
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Changing natural order of a sentence
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Personification
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Giving the traits of humans to non-human things
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Allusion
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reference to a commonly known idea, story
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Connotation
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Emotions or feelings a word can arouse in a reader
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Apostrophe
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Poetic device where a poet talks to a absent person
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