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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Allusion

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A reference to something commonly known

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis

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Understatement

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A figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the true case

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Paradox

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A statement that at first strikes one as self contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense

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Irony

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When what you expect to happen is surprisingly different from what actually happens

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Asyndeton

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A series of words separated by commas

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Polysyndeton

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Sentences which use many conjunctions

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Juxtaposition

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A technique in which two ideas, images, characters, actions are played side by side for comparison

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Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor that continues over multiple sentences

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Anaphora

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The repetition of words from the beginning of a sentence in another paragraph or sentence

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Alliteration

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Use of repeated consonants

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Assonance

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The matching of internal vowel sounds to create internal rhyme

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Consonance

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The repetition of consonant sounds - may be first and final consonant sounds

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Rhyme

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Perfect, Slant, and Eye Rhyme

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry

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Apostrophe

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A way of directly addressing someone (a dead or absent person) or something invisible or not ordinarily spoken to

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Metonymy

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Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it

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Synecdoche

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The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa

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Intentional Ambiguity

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The use of language or images to suggest more than one meaning at the same time, especially in a poem

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