Test Flashcards

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Allegory

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Interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

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Alliteration

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Occurrence if the same letter or sound at the beginning of close words

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Allusion

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Reference to

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Anaphora

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Repetition of worries or phrases in a group of sentences

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Apostrophe

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Direct speech to an abstract concept or person who’s not physically present

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound near each other

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Asyntedon

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A sense of conjunction between parts of a sentence

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Ballad

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Narrating poem in a short stanza

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Caesura

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Pauses in the middle of a line

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Cacophony

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Harsh sounds and combination of consonant in a group of words

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Cliche

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And overused phrase

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Concrete poetry

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Objects composed of words

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Consonance

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Same consonance sound in a group of words

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Couplet

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2 line stanza

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows what the character doesnt

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Elegy

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Poem of reflection

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Enjabment

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Absence of punctuation at the end of a line

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Epic

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Lengthy narrative

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Epitaph

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Short poem for a tombstone

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Extended metaphor

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Metaphor extended over multiple lines

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Euphony

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Pleasing to ear

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Free verse

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Open poetry

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Heterometric stanza

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Lines varying in lengths

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Hyperbole

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Overexageration

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Hyphora
When question is posed then answered
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Internal rhyme
Ryne in a single line
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Isometric stanza
Stanza with same line lengths
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Juxtaposition
Two things close to create a contrast effect
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Lyric
Poem that expresses personal emotion
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Metaphor
Comparing something to something else
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Octave
8 stanza
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Ole
Poem praising someone or something
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Onomatopoeia
Sounds for words
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Organic imagery
Emotions
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Oxymoron
Figure of speech when opposites are used beside each other
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Paradox
Statement that contradicts itself
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Polysyndeton
Overwhelming list
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Quatrain
4 line stanza
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Rhyme scene
Patter of rhyme at the end of each stanza
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Sonnet
14 line poem
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Synecdoche
Part of something is used to refer to s whole
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Syntax
Order of words
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Tercet
3 line stanza
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Tone
Feeling of poem
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Understatement
Representing something as less important
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Volta
Shift or change in poem