Terms P-Q Flashcards
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A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.
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Parallelism
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A situation/action/feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.
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Paradox
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A restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form.
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Paraphrase
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A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects/ideas human characteristics.
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Personification
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A group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables.
Iambic: u/ Trochaic: /u Anapestic: uu/ Dactylic: /uu Pyrrhic: uu Spondaic: //
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Poetic foot
