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60 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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Allusion |
Reference to a person, place, event. Can be biblical, mythological, historical, literary. |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing of words to someone who is not there to hear it. |
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Assonance |
Repetition of vowel sounds within a group of words |
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Atmosphere |
Mood or feeling of a poem |
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Ballad |
A poem that tells a narrative story |
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Ballad Stanza |
A quatrain, or four-line stanza, within a ballad |
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Blank Verse |
Iambic pentameter with no rhyme. (light beat followed by heavy beat, repeated 5 times per line) |
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Cacophony |
Harsh/unmusical sounds |
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Chorus |
A part of the poem that is repeated |
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Consonance |
Repetition of similar consonant sounds within a group of words. |
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Couplet |
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. |
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Dissonance |
Harsh/sharp sounds. |
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Elegy |
A poem of mourning, usually over the death of a person. |
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Epic |
A long poem about a heroic character. |
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Euphemism |
The use of mild expression to replace the harsher, direct expression. ("pass away" is a euphemism for "die") |
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Euphony |
Sounds pleasing to the ear. |
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Extended Metaphor |
A metaphor that is extended throughout most of the poem. |
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Free Verse |
A poem with no rhyme and no rhythm. |
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Hyperbole |
Figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggerations for effect. |
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Image |
a word or series of words that refers to sensory experiences. |
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Imagery |
Words that create pictures/ images in readers minds using descriptive languages that appeal to the 5 senses. |
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Irony |
When the actual meaning is opposite of the stated meaning, can be serious or humorous. |
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Juxtaposition |
Contrast of elements in a piece of literature for effect. |
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Lyric |
Short poem that expresses the private feelings. |
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Metaphor |
Comparison between two things without the uses of "as/ like" |
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Metonymy |
Replace the name of one thing with the name of something closely associated with it. ("White House" to refer to the "United States government") |
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Metre |
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
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Metrical Poetry |
poetry written in regular and repeating rhythms |
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Mood |
The atmosphere of a poem. |
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Motif |
Recurring theme/ idea/ symbol in the poem. |
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Narrative |
A poem that tells a story. |
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Octave |
Eight line poem/ stanza |
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Ode |
A poem expressing exciting emotion |
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Onomatopoeia |
words that imitate the sounds they refer to. (hiss, boom) |
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Oxymoron |
Combination of two contradictory terms. (cold fire) |
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Paradox |
a statement that stays true despite its internal contradiction. (Friends stab you in the front) |
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Parallelism |
Two lines of poetry that are structurally similar to suggest similarities between them. |
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Pastoral |
Poems about countryside/ shepherd lives. |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to non-human beings. |
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Pun |
A humorous play on words, double meanings. (potato puns are apeeling) |
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Quatrain |
A stanza of four lines |
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Refrain |
A word/ line/ phrase/ group of lines repeated regularly throughout the poem. |
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Repetition |
Repeating a word/ line/ phrase/ group of lines/ for emphasizing purposes. |
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Rhyme |
The repetition of sounds in two or more words that are at the end of a line in a poem. |
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Rhyme Scheme |
A pattern of rhyme in a poem. |
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Sarcasm |
Use of irony to mock things |
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Satire |
Writing with humour to provoke socio-political change. |
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Sestet |
A six line poem or stanza |
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Simile |
Comparison between two things with the use of "as and like" |
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Sonnet |
A lyric poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter |
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Stanza |
a segment within the pattern of a poem. |
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Style |
Characteristic way of writing. |
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Synecdoche |
When parts of the thing is used to represent the whole thing. |
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Symbol |
Something that represents something more than itself. (The christian cross is a symbol for religious beliefs) |
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Symbolism |
The use of symbols |
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Theme |
A general idea about life that the poet wishes to express |
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Tone |
The specific way and style of writing |
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Understatement |
Opposite of hyperbole, presenting something as being smaller and lesser. |
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Wit |
Intelligent humour. |