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Poetry literary devices Flashcards

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Haiku

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A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables

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Diction (Poetic)

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Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

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Euphony

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Pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination of succession of words

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Stanza

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An arrangement of a certain number of lines

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Imagery

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Words that paint pictures in the reader’s mind

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Iambic meter

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Foot of 2 syllables; unstressed, stressed

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Paradox

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A statement of proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound through a verse

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Meter

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The length of a line of poetry, based on what type of rhythm is used, measured in feet

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Approximate rhyme(Slant rhyme)

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When the final sound of two words are very similar but not exactly alike

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Tone

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The author’s attitude toward a poem

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Free verse

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No consistent rhythm or pattern; may or may not have some rhyme but not in any pattern

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Onomatopoeia

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Using the sound associated with something

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Allusion

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A reference to something beyond this piece, such as something in history, mythology, literature, etc,.

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Enjambment

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The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanzas to the next without a syntactical break

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Connotation

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The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its primary meaning

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End rhyme

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Rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry

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Parallelism

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Agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel

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Denotation

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The direct meaning or meanings of a word or expression

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Caesura

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A great, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse

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Cacophony

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Harsh discordance of sound; dissonance

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Scansion

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The metrical analysis of verse

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Understatement

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The act or an instance of representing in a weak/restrained way that is not borne out by the facts

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Dactyl meter

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Foot of 3 syllables; stressed, unstressed, unstressed

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End-stopped line

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Lines of poetry that end in a definite punctuation mark

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Simile

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An indirect comparison of 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”

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Consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound through a verse

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences

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Accent

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Prominence of a syllable in terms of different loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these

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Internal rhyme

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A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse

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Anapest meter

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Foot of 3 syllables; unstressed, unstressed, stressed

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Spondee meter

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Foot of 2syllables; stressed, stressed

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Hyperbole

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Obvious and intentional exaggeration

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Syntax

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The study of patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words

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Trochee meter

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Foot of 2 syllables; stressed, unstressed

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Blank verse

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Consist of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter( rhythm without rhyme)

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Symbolism

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The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investigating things with a symbolic meaning or character

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Irony

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The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 lines, especially in iambic pentameter

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Metaphor

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A direct comparison of 2 unlike things using forms of “to be” or replacing the object

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Personification

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Giving humanlike characteristics to an inanimate object

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Villanelle

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A short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually 5 in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on 2 line rhymes

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Couplet

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A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length

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