Literary Terms --- Poetry Flashcards

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1
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Repetition of words or sounds within lines or at the ends of lines

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Rhyme

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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Rhythm or Meter

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Words or phrases that recreate a feeling (appeals to one of the five senses)

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Imagery

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4
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Images that depart from standard wording to achieve a particular meaning or effect

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Figures of Speech

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An exaggeration — can be for serious or for comic effect

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Hyperbole

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6
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“I will love thee until the seas go dry.”

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Hyperbole

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A direct comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

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“He was an eagle, soaring above our heads.”

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Metaphor

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9
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A statement that first appears false, but is actually true

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Paradox

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10
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“When we live no more, we may live forever.”

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Paradox

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11
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Giving human qualities to something non-human

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Personification

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12
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“Because I could not stop for death / He kindly stopped for me.”

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Personification

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13
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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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Simile

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“What happens to a dream deferred? / does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

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Simile

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15
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A part of an object standing for the whole thing

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Synecdoche

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16
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“Hungry mouths to feed”

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Synecdoche

17
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Language used to make certain sounds

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Musical Devices

18
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The repetition of the first sound of several words

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Alliteration

19
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“Start their silent swinging”

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Alliteration

20
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Words whose sound suggests their meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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Clang

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Onomatopoeia

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Buzz

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Onomatopoeia

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Pop

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Onomatopoeia

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Rip

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Onomatopoeia

25
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds (sometimes used instead of end rhyme)

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Assonance

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“Beneath a deep and dreamless sleep”

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Assonance

27
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The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables

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Consonance

28
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“Blue spurt of a lighted match”

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Consonance

29
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The narrator of a poem

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The speaker

30
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Putting the words of a poem into one’s own words

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Paraphrase