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alliteration

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the repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (clasps, crag, crooked)

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antithesis

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a rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings.

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anaphora

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the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units.

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assonance

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words. (clasps, crag, hands)

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caesura

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a pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.

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consonance

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the repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants that creates extra emphasis on the word involved. (clasps, hands)

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enjambment

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a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.

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eye rhyme

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word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently.

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free verse

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poetry with no set meter or rhyme.

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internal rhyme

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rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.

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perfect rhyme

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agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.

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slant rhyme

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a rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds. (star and door)

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end rhyme

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rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry.

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meter

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the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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How do you describe a particular meter of a poem?

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One must determine the poetic feet and consider the length of the line

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Iambic Pentameter

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most common in english

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What can meter produce?

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various moods, depending on the combination of poetic foot and line length

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onomatopoeia

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the use of words that sound like what they mean. ”clangity-clang” (hiss, buzz)

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poetic feet

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the specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poem’s lines.

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rhetoric

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the art of public speaking.

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rhetoric question

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questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect.

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rhyme

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two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel.

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scansion

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the process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem.

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end stopped lines

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lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation

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feminine ending

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in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed.

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masculine ending

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in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is stressed.

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How are most techniques of organizing sound an syntax based on?

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Parallelsim and Repetition

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The effect or organized sound and syntax

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To clarify ideas in the text
To set a particular mood in the work
To emphasize important parts of the text

29
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Patterned repetition of sound, syntax, and thought is

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more common in poetry than in prose.

30
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What does meter most often directly affects?

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the mood of the poem

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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?

what does the author begin each stanza of her poem with?

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A rhetorical question

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What does parallelism do in the poem?

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the technique that characterizes the first overall structure of the poem

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RATTLESNAKE

How does the change of meter support the poem’s change of content?

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In the first stanza the words roll off the tongue creating easy rhythm and a sense of slow movement.
In the second stanza the meter changes, the speaker’s mood changes, using the hard “c” sound and there is an awakened mood of danger.

34
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What two sound devices are used in the second stanza?

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rhyme and alliteration

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ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET

What is the theme?

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that poetry relief from life’s hardships

36
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What does Keats use to add natural flow of his lines?

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enjambment

37
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How does the poem exhibit parallelism inits overall content?

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Lines 1 and 9 are nearly identical and introduce a new section of the poem.
Lines 1-8 describe the grasshopper
Lines 9-14 describe the cricket
There is parallel content and syntax emphasizing similar functions of both insects.

38
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How is the poem written in sonnet written?

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in an iambic pentameter

39
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“MARCH FOR A ONE–MAN BAND”

What is the theme?

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This poem emphasizes sound and syntax over rhyme.

40
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what does the term “irrational anthem” refer to?

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to the poems chaotic performance.

41
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Wagoner use the following to reinforce the meaning of his poem:

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No rhyme
Broken rhythm
Sound words

42
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Example of assonance

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“boot, toot, sloop”

43
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Example of rhyme or onomatopoeia

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“tweedledy and bumbledy”

44
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Describe the meter

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it is irregular meter; it shifts randomly between iambic and anapestic. It throws off the reader’s rhythm and adds to the awkward chaos of the one man band’s performance.

45
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FOUL SHOT

What is the theme?

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the author builds suspense by withholding the climax until the very end.

46
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The author uses what part of speech that builds the suspense?

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verb

47
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What is an example of how the poet creates suspense throughout the poem?

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The lines, “And then/And then/And then”

48
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List devices of sound or syntax found in the lines: Lands
Leans,
Wobbles, 
Wavers,
Hesitates,
Exasperates,
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Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance

49
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A GRAY SLEEVE

What is the theme?

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War is a destructive disruption of what normal human life should be.

50
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How does Crane creates a feeling of indecision in his writing?

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by using words such as “might”, “seem” and “maybe”.

51
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Examples of alliteration

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“rear rank”, “still stretched”

52
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Examples of onomatopoeia

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“the innumerable hoofs thundered”.

53
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“WINTER OCEAN”

What is the mood of the poem?

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is defiant, confrontational, depicting an active and energetic sea

54
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How does personification portray the poem?

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the defiance of the ocean

55
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What impressions of the ocean of the rhythm and sounds give readers?

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The sounds create a solid and choppy sound that evokes a kind of blustering energy. Heavy vowels such as the short u and the long a combine with marked consonants to create an almost cacophonous roughness.

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“TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK”

What is the theme?

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The speaker confronts a moral problem. (life’s moral dilemmas often require hard decisions.)

57
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What is an example of personification?

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when the author speaks of the wilderness listening.

58
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Example of onomatopoeia

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“hood purred”

59
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What does the speaker realizes when he touches the deer?

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that the fawn inside her is still living.

60
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Why does the speaker feels like its necessary to move the deer?

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another car may swerve to miss the deer and possibly cause another accident in which people are killed.

61
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The two swervings the author speaks of are:

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The swerving of a car

The swerving from his decision

62
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Does this contradict a Biblical worldview?

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No

63
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“I HAVE A DREAM”

What does the extended metaphor explain?

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the freedoms and opportunities denied African Americans is based on the image of a check and a bank.

64
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The sections of the speech beginning with “ I have a dream” and “Let freedom ring” both illustrate what?

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both illustrate the technique of chiasms.

65
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King’s statement listed here is an example of what rhetorical device : I have a dream that my four children will one day lie in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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Antithesis

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