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What is a prose?

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Spoken or written words which do not follow a specific metrical pattern, written words appear in a sentence or paragraph form

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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two unlike/different things using “as” or “like”

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What is a metaphor”

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A comparison of two unlike/different things without the use of “like’ or “as”

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What is a extended metaphor?

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A metaphor is repeatedly used throughout the poem to develop the poems theme

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What is a onomatopoeia?

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The use of a word whose sound imitates, suggests, and reinforces its meaning

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What is a personification?

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Giving something non-human human characteristics

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What is a hyperbole?

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An extreme exaggeration used for effect

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What is a alliteration?

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The repetition of the same consonant or vowel sound at the start or words

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What is a assonance?

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds anywhere within the words

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What is a consonance?

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds anywhere within the words in a line of poetry

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What is a cacophony?

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The use of harsh discordant sounds for poetic effect

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What is a euphony?

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The use of soft pleasant sounds for poetic effects

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What is a oxymoron?

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Words or a phase that combines contradicting or opposite ideas

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What is a paradox?

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An apparently contradictory statement with an element of truth in it

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What is symbolism?

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Something representing something else especially a material object representing an abstract idea

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What is repetition?

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Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas for rhyme, rhythm, emphasis, and continuty

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What is incremental repetition?

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A specific type of parallelism involving the repetition of whole lines or stanzas with small but significant changes to a few from one to the next

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What is refrain?

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Key lines of a poem that are repeated at regular intervals within a song

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What is parallelism?

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The repetition of key components in a line/sentence that have similar grammatical structure, adds balance, rhythm/flow, and empasis

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What is a allusion?

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An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event from history, literature, mythology, or the bible

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What is a apostrophe?

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A direct address to a person, place, thing, or idea in a line of poetry

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What is a pun?

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A word with two different meanings, similarity of meanings in two words that are homonyms, two words pronounced and spelled similarly but have different meanings

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What is a rhyme?

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Similar sounds in words positioned closely together

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What are the nine types of rhymes?

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Beginning, internal, end, masculine, feminine, triple, eye, perfect, half

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What is a beginning rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs at the beginning of two or more lines

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What is a internal rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs in the middle of two or more lines

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What is a end rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines

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What is a masculine rhyme?

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The rhyme consists of a single syllable

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What is a feminine rhyme?

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Two syllable rhyme

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What is a triple rhyme?

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Three syllable rhyme

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What is a eye rhyme?

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Words appear to rhyme (based to sight) but they do not sound the same

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What is a perfect rhyme?

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The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical as well as any subsequent sounds

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What is a half rhyme?

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Words in which the final consonants are identical but the preceding vowels differ or vice versa

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What is a ambiguity?

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Uncertainty produced by words or phrases that have two or more possible meanings

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What is a dysphemism?

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The use of a crude or shocking word or expression used in place of socially accepted language

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What is a euphemism?

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The use of pleasant-sounding word or phrase to avoid talking about the unpleasant reality

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What is a end-stopped verse?

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The flow of the poem is stopped at the end of each line by punctuation mark or by the phrasing of the line

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What is a enjambment?

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The syntax or cadence of a line poetry carries the reader into the next line

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What is a caesura?

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A short but definite pause in a metrical line often marked by a punctuation

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What is dramatic monologue?

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The narrator typically uses the stream-of-consciousness technique to speak to one or more people who are silent listeners

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What is a persona?

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The character who narrators the poem but is not the author

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What is a rhythm?

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A recurrent beat or stress of the line

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What is the mood?

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The feeling the reader gets from reading the book

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What is the tone?

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The writer’s attitude towards the subject and the audience

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What is the voice?

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The distinctive personality of the speaker or persona coming through the work

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What is a poetic license?

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Allows the poet to depart from standard grammatical choices and word choices to create a unique poem

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What is a archetype?

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Plots, themes, characters, or images which are identifiable in a wide variety of literature, myths, dreams, and ritualized made of social behavior

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What is poetic justice?

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Characters is literature receive their reward or punishment for deeds done

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What is imagery?

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Figurative language using the five senses to create metaphors, similes, personification, vivid descriptions to produce mental pictures

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What is a denotation?

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The literal or dictionary meaning of a word

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What is a connotation?

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The implied meaning of a word based on emotional associations with it

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What is a free verse?

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Poem with no rhyme or rhythmic pattern

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What is a synecdoche?

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A part that represents a whole

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What is a juxtaposition?

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The placing of two or more words side-by-side in a line of poetry which are unrelated

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What is a stanza?

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Group of lines separated by a line space for different ideas, rhyme, rhythm, emphasis

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What is a metre?

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A system for determines the rhythmic pattern of a poem according to its stressed and unstressed syllables

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What is a foot?

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A recurring metric and measured unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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What are the six different types of foots?

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Iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, pyrrhic

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What is a iambic?

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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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What is a anapestic?

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Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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What is a trochaic?

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A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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What is a dactylic?

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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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What is a spondaic?

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Two unstressed syllables

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What is a pyrrhic?

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Two stressed syllables

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What is a scansion?

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The process of analyzing a poem to determine its metre and line length

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What is a iambic pentametre?

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(each iambic foot contains two syllables; 10 syllables) of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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What is a blank verse?

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Unrhymed iambic pentametre commonly seen in shakespeare’s plays

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What is litotes?

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An understatement in which an affirmative is conveyed by stating a negative

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What is a archaism?

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The use of words and expressions in literature that have become absolute in common speech

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What is a metonymy?

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One term is a direct substitute for another

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What is satire?

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Any work which ridicules people ideas or institutions to make a point for reform

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What is a parody?

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Any work which humorously ridicules a particular style or literacy composition through imitations for entertainment

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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An alphabetical labelling system used to describe the rhyming pattern in a poem

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What is figurative language?

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The use of figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc

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What is a poetic diction?

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The words the poet selects to express his/her meaning

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What is pathetic fallacy?

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Nature reflects the emotions of characters and the mood of events in the story or poem

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