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23 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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Allusion |
Reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
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Apostrophe |
A direct address to an absent person or personified quality, object or idea |
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Assonance |
The repetition of vowels sounds |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllable containing dissimilar vowel sounds |
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Hyperbole |
Deliberate exaggeration |
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Imagery |
The descriptive language used in poety to re-create sensory experinces |
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Metaphor |
A direct comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them.
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Mood |
How the Readers feel through reading |
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Motif |
Repeating Objects/ theme |
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onomatopoeia |
the use of words which imitate sound |
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Oxymoron |
Figure of speech that fuses to contradictory or opposing ideas |
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Personification |
A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abillities |
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Repetition |
the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. |
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Rhyme |
The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words |
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Rhyme scheme |
the sequence in which the rhyme occurs. |
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Scansion |
The process of analyzing the metrical patter of a poem |
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Stanza |
a group of lines in a poem seen as a unit |
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Symbol |
Anything that stands for or represents something els |
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synecdoche |
Figures of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole |
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Simile |
A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like" or "as" or "than" |
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Theme |
central idea, concern, purpose |
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Tone |
The feeling that the writer/ author tries to conveyed the reader. |