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Poetic Techniques Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words

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Anthropomorphism

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The human characteristics assigned to animals

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Consonance

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A figure of speech in which the same sound repeat within a group of words

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Emotive language

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Language intended to make an emotional response

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Enjambment

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When a sentence runs over from one line of verse into the next

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Hyperbole

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A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect

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Metaphor

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Something used to stand for or represent something else

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Monologue

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An extended speech by one person in literature and drama

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Mood

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The overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound a little like they mean

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Oxymoron

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A phrase that consists of two words that are contradictory

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Pathetic fallacy

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A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather

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Personification

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Describing something non-human as if it has human characteristics such as feelings

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Rhythm

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The arrangement of words to form a regular beat through a pattern of stress

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Sibilance

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A hissing sound is created within a group of words through the repetition of the s sound

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Simile

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A descriptive technique that compares one thing with another usually using like or as

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Sonnet

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One stanza 14 line poem

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Stanza

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Group of lines forming a unit in a poem (a clearly demarcated part of poem)

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Symbol

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Something used to stand for or represent something else

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Tone

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The authors attitude toward the subject of work or toward the audience

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Zoomorphism

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When animal characteristics are assigned to humans

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