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What is alliteration?

A

repetition of the same or similar sounds

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What is an allusion?

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reference to a person, place, or event from literature/popular event

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What is an apostrophe?

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speaker that addresses an absent person as if it were able to responding

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What is an audience?

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who the poem is meant for

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What is a ballad?

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narrative song

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What is a blank verse?

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verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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What is connotation?

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all meanings, association, or emotions a word suggests

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What is a couplet?

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two consecutive lines that form a rhyme or rhythm

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What is denotation?

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literal meaning of a word

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What is diction?

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word choice

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What is figurative language?

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saying that compares two things that are dissimilar; not meant to be taken literally

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What is a free verse?

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does not have a regular meter or rhyme

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What is a hyperbole?

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over exaggeration

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What is the iambic pentameter?

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line made of five iambs

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What is imagery?

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language that appeals to the senses

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What is irony

A

difference between expectation and what really happens

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What is a metaphor?

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comparison of two things (no like/as)

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What is a meter?

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regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (rhythm)

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oxymoron

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contradictory terms are used together

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what is a paradox?

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statement that seem contradictory but may be true

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What is personification?

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object is given human characteristics

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What is a pun?

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play on multiple meanings of a word that sound alike but have different meanings

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What is a quatrain?

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four line stanza

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What is a refrain?

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repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines

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What is a rhyme?

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repetition of accented vowel sounds

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What is a simile?

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comparison of two things (using like/as)

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What is a sonnet?

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14 line lyric poem

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Who is the speaker?

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voice of the poem

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What is a stanza?

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group of lines that form a single unit in a poem

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What is a symbol?

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person, place, thing, or even that stands for itself and something beyond itself

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What is a tercet?

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three-lined stanza

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What is a theme?

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central idea

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What is tone?

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author’s attitude towards the reader

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