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38 Cards in this Set
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lyric poetry
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one central idea expressed by a single speaker
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narrative poetry
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someone telling the story
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dramatic poetry
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speaker has a role in drama
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tone
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speaker's attitude toward the subject
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verbal irony
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speaker says something opposite of what they mean
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dramatic irony
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does something unrealistic/unaware but audience is
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connotation
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associations or feelings that a word evokes
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denotation
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dictionary definition
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cosmic irony
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what happens is the opposite of what is expected
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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metaphor
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comparison without using like oras
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implied metaphor
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authr will not directly state the comparison but it is shown
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personification
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human characteristics
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allusion
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reference to any person, place, or thing (fictuos, historical, actual)
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synecdoche
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use of significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa.
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metonymy
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substitue something closely associated with it
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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symbol
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physical thing to represent idea or feeling
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alliteration
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use of the same consanat at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.
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assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds
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consonance
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repitition of consanant sound at the end of word
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onomatopoeia
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sound is meaning
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cacophony
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stop sounds
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euphony
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continuous sounds
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slant rhyme
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last consanant sound is the same in two words
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meter
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beat of poem
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persona
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speaker or narrator
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sarcasm
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irony
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imagery
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scene the poet creates with throughout the poem
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diction
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word choice
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implied metaphor
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direct comparison isnt stated but it is shown
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apostrophe
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direct address to someone or something that cannot respond
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understatement
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minimize the importance of something
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paradox
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statement seems to be untrue bc it contradicts itself but has an alternate meaning as a whole
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rhyme
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words with the same ending (assonance and consanance)
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rhyme scheme
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how the poem rhymes
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internal rhyme
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at least one word in the middle of the line that rhymes with another word within the poem
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end rhyme
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rhyming words at the end of the line
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