Poetry Flashcards
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Simile
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Comparison using like or as. It usually compares two dissimilar objects.
1
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Metaphor
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States that one thing is something else. Doesn’t use like or as to make the comparison.
2
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Personification
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Gives an animal, object, or idea human qualities, such as the ability to hear, feel, talk, and make decisions.
3
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration made to emphasize an idea; it is not meant to be taken literally.
4
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Onomatopoeia
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Use of words that sound like the noises they describe.
5
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line of poetry or a sentence.
6
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Couplet
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2
7
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Tercet
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3
8
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Quatrain
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4
9
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Cinquain
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5
10
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Sestet
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6
11
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Heptastich
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7
12
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Octave
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8
13
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Stanza
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Group of lines considered as a unit.
14
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Rhyme scheme
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Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
