Test Flashcards

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Ode

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Glorifies a person

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Shakespearean sonnet

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Iambic pentameter
Ababcdcdefefgg

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Miltonic sonnet

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Octave 8 and sestet 6
ABBA ABBA cdcdcd

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Villanelle

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Five tercets and a quatrain
Aba aba aba aba aba abaa

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5
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Spenserian sonnet

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14 lines
Abab bcbc cdcd ee

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6
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Iambic hexameter

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Six feet per line
da- DUM

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Trochaic trimeter

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Tree feet per line
DA-dum

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Trochaic pentameter

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Five feet per line
DA-dum

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9
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed

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10
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Iambic pentameter

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Five feet per line
da-DUM

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Chiasmus

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Chiasmus is a rhetorical device where words or concepts are reversed for effect.

Example: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (Shakespeare)

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12
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Metonymy

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Metonymy is a figure of speech where something is referred to by an associated term rather than its actual name.

Example: “The White House issued a statement.” (Here, “White House” represents the U.S. government.)

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Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech where a word imitates a sound.

Example: “The bees buzzed around the flowers.”

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