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Poetic Devices Flashcards

1
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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words near to each other

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison NOT using like or as

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to non-human things

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5
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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Apostrophe

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Addressing someone not present or something that cannot respond

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Symbol

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A thing that represents or stands for something

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that makes the sound it represents

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Synecdoche

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When a part represents all

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Metonymy

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Something so closely associated with something else that it can take its place

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11
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Litotes

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Understatement

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12
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Archaism

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Old-fashioned language

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13
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Paradox

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A seeming contradiction

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14
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Verbal Irony

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When one says something but means the opposite

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15
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Allusion

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Reference to something in a different situation

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16
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Dramatic Irony

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The ending is different from the expectations

17
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Antithesis

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two words contrasted to each other in poetry

18
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Euphony

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Gentle sounding words or letters in a line

19
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Cacophony

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Hard sounding words in a line of poetry

20
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Lyrical Poetry

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Poetry based on the writer’s feelings and doesn’t tell a story

21
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Narrative Poetry

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Tells a story

22
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Near Rhyme

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Two words whose endings are similar but not exactly the same

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End Rhyme

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Rhyme at the end of two lines or more in poetry

24
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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme contained within a line of poetry

25
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Masculine Rhyme

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A 1 syllable rhyme

26
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Feminine Rhyme

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A 2 syllable rhyme

27
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Triple Rhyme

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A 3 syllable rhyme

28
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Refrain

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Repetition of a phrase or stanza

29
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Repetition

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Repetition of a word or phrase within a poem

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