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Poetic techniques Flashcards

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What is pathetic fallacy?

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Giving emotion to the weather in order to create a mood within the text

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What is irony?

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Language that says one thing but implies the opposite

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What is colloquial language?

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Colloquial language is informal language, which usually creates a conversational tone or authentic voice

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What is Sibilance?

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The repetition of the “s” of “sh” sound

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What is Anaphora?

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Anaphora is when the first word of a stanza is the same across stanzas

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What is epistrophe?

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Epistrophe is when the final word of a stanza is the same across all stanzas

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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Two rhyming lines together

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What is free verse?

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A poem that doesn’t rhyme

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What is a caesura?

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The use of punctuation in a poem to create pauses or stops.

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What is a Quatrain?

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A Quatrain is a stanza with 4 lines

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