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Poetic techniques Flashcards

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is when two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence

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A literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.

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Assonance

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When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence

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Alliteration

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What is Assonance?

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Assonance is a literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.

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A type of poetry that has a regular meter, but no rhyme scheme.

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Blank verse

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What is a Blank verse?

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Blank verse is a type of poetry that has a regular meter, but no rhyme scheme.

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What is an Enjambment?

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Enjambment is the continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to the next without any punctuation

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The continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to the next without any punctuation

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Enjambment

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What is a Free Verse?

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Free verse is a poetic style that does not feature a set meter or rhyme scheme.

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A poetic style that does not feature a set meter or rhyme scheme.

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Free verse

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What is a Hyperbole?

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Hyperbole is an extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

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is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

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Iambic pentameter

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is the use of words to create images, impressions or mood for the reader.

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Imagery

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is an extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

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Hyperbole

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What is an Iambic Pentameter?

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Iambic pentameter is a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

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What is an imagery?

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Imagery is the use of words to create images, impressions or mood for the reader.

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What are the five types of imagery?

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Visual
Auditory
Olfactory
Gustatory
Tactile

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Appeals to the sense of sight, it describes what is being seen.

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Visual imagery

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What is visual imagery?

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Visual imagery appeals to the sense of sight, it describes what is being seen.

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What is auditory imagery?

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Auditory imagery describes specific sounds that are happening within the story.

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Describes specific sounds that are happening within the story.

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Auditory imagery

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Describes a particular scent.

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Olfactory imagery

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What is olfactory imagery?

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Olfactory imagery describes a particular scent.

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What is gustatory imagery?

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Gustatory imagery describes the sense of taste.

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What is tactile imagery?

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Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.

26
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Appeals to the sense of touch.

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Tactile imagery

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Describes the sense of taste.

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Gustatory imagery

28
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What is irony?

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Irony is events or words are the opposite of what is expected.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another.

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A figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another.

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What is objectification?

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When a person is treated like an object - the opposite of personification.

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Events or words are the opposite of what is expected.

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What is Onomatopoeia?

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Onomatopoeia is the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.

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The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds.

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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An oxymoron

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What is Oxymoron?

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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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What is Personification?

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Personification is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals, such as emotions and behaviors

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What is a Rhetorical Question?

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A rhetorical question is asked in order to make a statement and does not expect an answer.

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Is asked in order to make a statement and does not expect an answer.

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A rhetorical question

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When a person is treated like an object - the opposite of personification.

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Objectification

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What is Rhyme?

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A rhyme is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word

42
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Is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word

43
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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals, such as emotions and behaviors

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Personification

44
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What is Rhythm?

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Rhythm is the beat and pace of a poem

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What is Sibilance?

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Sibilance is the repetition of “s” sounds in a series of neighboring words

46
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Is the repetition of “s” sounds in a series of neighboring words

47
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What is Simile?

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Simile is to describe one object or being to be like or as something else.

48
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Is to describe one object or being to be like or as something else.

49
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What is Stanza?

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A stanza is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

50
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Is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme

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What is Symbolism?

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Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things

52
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Is the idea that things represent other things

53
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What is Synecdoche?

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Synecdoche is a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.

54
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Is a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.

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Synecdoche

55
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What is tempo?

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Rhythm refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

56
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Refers to the overall pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

57
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Is the beat and pace of a poem

58
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https://literary-devices.com/Go here and write down 3 new definitions

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https://literary-devices.com/

59
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https://literary-devices.com/Go here and write down 3 new definitions

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https://literary-devices.com/

60
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https://literary-devices.com/ Go here and write down 3 new definitions

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https://literary-devices.com/

61
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What is anaphora?

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repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses

62
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repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses

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