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What is an Adjective?

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Describes a noun.

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What is an Adverb?

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Describes a verb or adjective.

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What is an Alliteration?

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Repetition of the start of words.

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What is an Anaphora?

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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning.

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What is an Antonym?

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Opposite in meaning to another word.

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What is an Assonance?

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Repetition of the vowel sound nearby words in a text.

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What is a Caesura?

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Pause within a line.

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How does a Caesura get shown?

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Through punctuation.

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9
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What is a Colloquial language?

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Social accent.

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What is a Conjunction?

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Connects clauses.

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What is an example of Conjunction?

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And.

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What is a Consonance?

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Repetition of similar constant sounds in nearby words.

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What is an example of Consonance?

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Sammy was clammy.

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What is a Couplet?

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Two successive lines that often rhyme together.

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What is a Determiner?

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Determines what is being spoken about.

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What is an example of Determiner?

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The door.

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What is Emotive language?

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Language associates with Emotion.

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What is Empathy?

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Understanding feelings based on experience.

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What is Enjambment?

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Lines that continue onto the next line or stanza.
Without punctuation or pause.

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What is form?

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Structure or pattern.

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21
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What is a Full Rhyme?

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Sound is identical in words.

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What is an example of Full Rhyme?

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Fat cat.

23
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What is Holistic?

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Bigger picture of a theme.

24
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What is an iamb?

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Unstressed syllable followed by stressed.

25
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What is an Imagery?

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Language used to create an image.

26
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What is an example of iamb?

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Delight.

27
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What is Internal rhyme?

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Rhyme within a line.

28
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What is Irony?

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Goes against the expectation.

29
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What is Juxtaposition?

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Two opposite ideas.

30
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What is a Litotes?

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Purposeful understandement.

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What is an example of Litote?

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Not half bad.

32
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What is an Oxymoron?

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Verb or noun described as the opposite.

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What is an example of an Oxymoron?

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Slowly running.

34
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What is Pathetic Fallacy?

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Weather reflecting the mood.

35
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What is Personification?

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Gives living qualities to inaminate things.

36
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What is a Plosive?

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Potent sound.

37
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What is an example of Plosive?

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Tomb.

38
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What is a Pragmatic?

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Practicle especially when making decisions.

39
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What is an example of Pragmatic?

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Who do you think you are?

40
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What is a Preposition?

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Describes the position of something.

41
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What is an example of Preposition?

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In.

42
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What is a Pronoun?

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Replaces a noun.

43
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What is a Prosody?

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Pattern of a particular rhythm.

44
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What is a Quatrain?

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Four-line stanza.

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What is a Quintain?

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Five-line stanza.

46
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What is Sibilance?

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Similar to alliteration but only dor ‘s’ or ‘sh’ sounds.

47
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What is a Simile?

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Compare something being similar using like or as.

48
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What is a Stanza?

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Poetic version of a paragraph.

49
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What is a Superlative?

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Highest degree or amount of something.

50
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What is a Tercet?

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Three-line stanza.

51
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What is a Volta?

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Drastic change in mood, tone or topic in a poem.

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