Poetic Techniques Flashcards

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What is alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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What is anthropomorphism

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When animal characteristics are assigned to humans

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What is a consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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What is an enjambment

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

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What is a hyPerbole

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A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect

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What is a metaphor

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A descriptive technique that names a person thing or action as something else

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What is onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like they mean

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What is 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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What is personification

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

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What does simile mean

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

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What is a sonnet

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A one stanza 14 line poem

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What is emotive language

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Descriptive words that evoke emotion

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What’s a monologue

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Long speech

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What’s an oxymoron

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noun: oxymoron; plural noun: oxymorons
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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What’s a sibilance

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Hissing sound

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