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Poetry Targets Flashcards

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Sound Devices

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Cadence
Onomatopoeia 
Assonance 
Alliteration 
Consonance
Slant rhyme
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Structure

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Free verse

Parallel structure

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Graphic Elements

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Catalog

Dash

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Imagery
  2. Tone
  3. Simile
  4. Metaphor
  5. Personification
  6. Symbol
  7. Intentional ambiguity
  8. Paradox
  9. Pun
  10. Metaphysical poetry
  11. Allusion
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Whitman’s major themes

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  1. The democratic spirit
  2. The beauty of the individual
  3. The cycle of life
  4. Empathy
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Dickinson’s major themes

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  1. Seeing the macrocosm in the microcosm (the big in the little)
  2. Seeing the divine in the natural
  3. The inner world
  4. Death
  5. Pain/separation/ecstasy
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Alliteration

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How the lank loose-gowned woman looked…

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Cadence

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Long sweeping lines

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Assonance

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Similar vowel sounds

“The lIfted stick”

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that echo their meaning (buzz, whizz)

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Consonance

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The “z” sound in “for fear the numbers fuse”

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Slant rhyme

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Close but not exact rhyming sound

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Figurative language

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Describes one thing in terms of another and not meant to be taken literally

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Simile

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Like, as, than, resembles

Compares

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Metaphor

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Compares

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Personification

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An object is described as a human

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Symbols

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Both literal and figurative

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Imagery

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Using words to evoke sense experience

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Ambiguity

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A writer suggests two or more different and sometimes conflicting meaning

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Intentional ambiguity

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A writer suggests two or more different but compatible meanings

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Tone

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The attitude the writer takes toward the subject

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Paradox

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A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth

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Pun

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Joke where a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time

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Parallel structure

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Repetition of the same or similar words, phrases, clauses, or sentences

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Free verse

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Poetry written without concern for regular rhyme schemes and meter

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Metaphysical poetry

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When imagery and figures of speech are intellectual or far-fetched and fantastic

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Coda

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The finale or the closing section of a long poem

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Catalog

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A long list of things, people, or events in a poem

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Dash

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Interrupt the rhythm of a poem, calling attention to details that otherwise might be glossed over

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How meaning is conveyed through features of poetry

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  1. Sound
  2. Structure
  3. Graphic Elements
  4. Poetic Devices

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