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52 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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Allusion |
A reference in literary work to a person place or thing in history or another work of literature |
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Amphilbranch |
A stressed syllaball surrounded by two unstressed |
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Anapest |
Two unstressed filled by a stress |
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Apostrophe |
Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary |
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Assonance |
The repetition of sound near enough to each other for the echo |
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Blank verse |
Unrymed iambic pentameter |
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Caesura |
Pause near the middle of the line |
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Carpe diem |
Latin expression that means cease the day |
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Catalogue |
The poetic techniques of listing |
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Conceit |
A fanciful or ingenious poetic image or meter that likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different often with shocking effect |
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Consonance |
The recurrence of similar constant sounds in close proximity to one another |
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Couplet |
Two successive rhyming lines that have the same meter and form complete though |
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Dactyl |
A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable |
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Diction |
A selection of words in literary work |
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Dimeter |
A metrical line of verse with two feet |
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End stopped line |
A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of the sentence can have punctuation |
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English sonnet |
14 lines 3 quatrains and a couplet |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end line |
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Epic |
Long book length poem |
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Figurative language |
Laungage that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation |
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Free verse |
Poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter |
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Iamb |
Unstressed followed by a stressed |
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Iambic pentameter |
Metric form each have five iambs |
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Imagery |
Language that creates a mental picture of something |
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Irregular rhythms |
Poetic rhythms that does not follow a regular meter |
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Italian sonnet |
14 lines divided into two parts |
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Lyric |
Short poem such as sonnet or a ode that expresses thoughts and feelings |
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Metaphor |
Figure of speech comparing two things |
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Molossus |
Three stressed syllable in a row |
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Mono meter |
Line of verse with just one foot |
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Octave |
A stanza or grouping of eight lines |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words sound associated with what it’s named |
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Pentameter |
Five lines of five feet |
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Prosody |
The patterns of Ruth em and sound used in poetry |
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Pyrrhus |
Foot used in a poem consists of two unaccented short syllables |
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Quatrain |
Type of stanza complete poem consist of four lines |
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Quintrain |
Five lines |
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Regular rhythm |
Flows with a regular patter or meter |
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Rhyme scheme |
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line |
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Scansion |
Analysis of a poem meter |
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Sestet |
Poem of six lines |
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Simile |
Comparing two things using like or as |
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Slant rhymes |
Half rhyme near rhyme lazy rhyme similar words but not rhyme |
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Sonnet |
14 line poem |
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Spondee |
Two stressed syllables |
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Stanza |
Four or more lines having a fixed length |
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Tercet |
Three lines of poetry forming a stanza |
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Tetrameter |
4 lines |
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Tone |
The implied attitude of a writer |
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Trimester |
A meter of three metrical feet per line |
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Trochee |
Metrical foot con sting of a stressed syllable followed by a unstressed |
