PKT Flashcards

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A resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike

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Analogy

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The process of attributing human characteristic to something non - human, in particular the gods or God. The term also refers to animals that are given human personalities.

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Anthropomorphism

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The repetition of words in identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

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Assonance

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A narrative poem, frequently of unknown authorship, composed of short verses intended to be sung or recited

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Ballad

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5
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A type of poetry with regular meter with no rhyme

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Blank verse

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The repetition of a final consonant sound in words with different vowels

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Consonance

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7
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Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

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Couplet

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In writing the careful of words based on their correctness, clarity, or effectiveness

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Diction

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9
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A poem in which there is one imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience

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Dramatic poetry

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10
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Verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter

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Free verse

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The use of language to create sensory impressions the appeals to the 5 senses

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Imagery

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Any non-narrative poem presenting a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of thought and feeling

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Lyric poetry

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The rhythmic pattern in verse, made up of stressed and unstressed syllables; a specific form of such a pattern, depending on the number and kind of feet; for instance iambic pentameter

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Meter

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14
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A poem that tells a story

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Narrative poetry

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15
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A long lyric poem, serious in subject, elevated in style, and elaborate in stanzaic structure

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Ode

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16
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The term used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning

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Onomatopoeia

17
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A figure of speech that endows things or abstractions with life or human characteristic (not to be confused with anthropomorphism)

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Personification

18
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The abstract pattern of end-rhymes in a stanza, usually notated with lower-cases letters

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of stressed and I stressed syllables in a line of poetry prose. Poets use RHYTHM to bring out the musical quality of language, to emphasize ideas, to create mood, to unify work, or to heighten emotional response

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Rhythm