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Poetry Literary Devices Flashcards

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What is a Stanza?

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A set of lines in a poem.

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What is a Couplet?

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A Stanza or poem with 2 lines

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What is a Tercet?

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A Stanza or poem with 3 lines

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What is a Quatrain?

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A Stanza or poem with 4 lines

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What is an Epigraph?

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Starting a piece of writing with a quotation.

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What is an Allusion?

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A reference to something the reader is familiar with

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What is Imagery?

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Sensory language used to evoke emotion

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What is Personification?

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Giving human characteristics to a nonliving thing

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What is a Hyperbole?

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Extreme exaggeration

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What is a Euphemism?

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A nice way of saying something

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What is a Dysphemism?

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A mean or harsh way of saying something

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What is a Euphony?

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A pleasant sounding word, phrase, or line

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What is a Cacophony?

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A harsh or ugly-sounding word, phrase, or line

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What is an Onomatopoeia?

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A word that is a sound.

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What is Alliteration?

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Repetition of the first sounds of words

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What is Consonance?

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Repetition of the Consonant (non-vowel) sounds

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What is Assonance?

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Repetition of the Vowel sounds

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What is a Caesura?

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When punctuation creates a pause for the reader in the middle of a line of poetry

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What is End-stopped?

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When a punctuation creates a pause for the reader at the end of a line of poetry

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What is Enjambment?

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When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so the reader does not pause between lines.

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