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What is a prose?

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Spoken or written words which do not follow a specific metrical pattern, written words appear in a sentence or paragraph form

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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two unlike/different things using “as” or “like”

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What is a metaphor”

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A comparison of two unlike/different things without the use of “like’ or “as”

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What is a extended metaphor?

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A metaphor is repeatedly used throughout the poem to develop the poems theme

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What is a onomatopoeia?

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The use of a word whose sound imitates, suggests, and reinforces its meaning

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What is a personification?

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Giving something non-human human characteristics

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What is a hyperbole?

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An extreme exaggeration used for effect

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What is a alliteration?

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The repetition of the same consonant or vowel sound at the start or words

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What is a assonance?

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds anywhere within the words

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What is a consonance?

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds anywhere within the words in a line of poetry

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What is a cacophony?

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The use of harsh discordant sounds for poetic effect

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What is a euphony?

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The use of soft pleasant sounds for poetic effects

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What is a oxymoron?

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Words or a phase that combines contradicting or opposite ideas

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What is a paradox?

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An apparently contradictory statement with an element of truth in it

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What is symbolism?

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Something representing something else especially a material object representing an abstract idea

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What is repetition?

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Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas for rhyme, rhythm, emphasis, and continuty

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What is incremental repetition?

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A specific type of parallelism involving the repetition of whole lines or stanzas with small but significant changes to a few from one to the next

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What is refrain?

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Key lines of a poem that are repeated at regular intervals within a song

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What is parallelism?

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The repetition of key components in a line/sentence that have similar grammatical structure, adds balance, rhythm/flow, and empasis

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What is a allusion?

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An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event from history, literature, mythology, or the bible

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What is a apostrophe?

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A direct address to a person, place, thing, or idea in a line of poetry

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What is a pun?

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A word with two different meanings, similarity of meanings in two words that are homonyms, two words pronounced and spelled similarly but have different meanings

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What is a rhyme?

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Similar sounds in words positioned closely together

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What are the nine types of rhymes?

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Beginning, internal, end, masculine, feminine, triple, eye, perfect, half

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What is a beginning rhyme?
The rhyme occurs at the beginning of two or more lines
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What is a internal rhyme?
The rhyme occurs in the middle of two or more lines
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What is a end rhyme?
The rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines
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What is a masculine rhyme?
The rhyme consists of a single syllable
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What is a feminine rhyme?
Two syllable rhyme
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What is a triple rhyme?
Three syllable rhyme
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What is a eye rhyme?
Words appear to rhyme (based to sight) but they do not sound the same
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What is a perfect rhyme?
The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical as well as any subsequent sounds
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What is a half rhyme?
Words in which the final consonants are identical but the preceding vowels differ or vice versa
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What is a ambiguity?
Uncertainty produced by words or phrases that have two or more possible meanings
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What is a dysphemism?
The use of a crude or shocking word or expression used in place of socially accepted language
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What is a euphemism?
The use of pleasant-sounding word or phrase to avoid talking about the unpleasant reality
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What is a end-stopped verse?
The flow of the poem is stopped at the end of each line by punctuation mark or by the phrasing of the line
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What is a enjambment?
The syntax or cadence of a line poetry carries the reader into the next line
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What is a caesura?
A short but definite pause in a metrical line often marked by a punctuation
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What is dramatic monologue?
The narrator typically uses the stream-of-consciousness technique to speak to one or more people who are silent listeners
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What is a persona?
The character who narrators the poem but is not the author
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What is a rhythm?
A recurrent beat or stress of the line
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What is the mood?
The feeling the reader gets from reading the book
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What is the tone?
The writer's attitude towards the subject and the audience
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What is the voice?
The distinctive personality of the speaker or persona coming through the work
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What is a poetic license?
Allows the poet to depart from standard grammatical choices and word choices to create a unique poem
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What is a archetype?
Plots, themes, characters, or images which are identifiable in a wide variety of literature, myths, dreams, and ritualized made of social behavior
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What is poetic justice?
Characters is literature receive their reward or punishment for deeds done
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What is imagery?
Figurative language using the five senses to create metaphors, similes, personification, vivid descriptions to produce mental pictures
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What is a denotation?
The literal or dictionary meaning of a word
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What is a connotation?
The implied meaning of a word based on emotional associations with it
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What is a free verse?
Poem with no rhyme or rhythmic pattern
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What is a synecdoche?
A part that represents a whole
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What is a juxtaposition?
The placing of two or more words side-by-side in a line of poetry which are unrelated
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What is a stanza?
Group of lines separated by a line space for different ideas, rhyme, rhythm, emphasis
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What is a metre?
A system for determines the rhythmic pattern of a poem according to its stressed and unstressed syllables
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What is a foot?
A recurring metric and measured unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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What are the six different types of foots?
Iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, pyrrhic
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What is a iambic?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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What is a anapestic?
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
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What is a trochaic?
A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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What is a dactylic?
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
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What is a spondaic?
Two unstressed syllables
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What is a pyrrhic?
Two stressed syllables
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What is a scansion?
The process of analyzing a poem to determine its metre and line length
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What is a iambic pentametre?
(each iambic foot contains two syllables; 10 syllables) of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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What is a blank verse?
Unrhymed iambic pentametre commonly seen in shakespeare's plays
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What is litotes?
An understatement in which an affirmative is conveyed by stating a negative
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What is a archaism?
The use of words and expressions in literature that have become absolute in common speech
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What is a metonymy?
One term is a direct substitute for another
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What is satire?
Any work which ridicules people ideas or institutions to make a point for reform
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What is a parody?
Any work which humorously ridicules a particular style or literacy composition through imitations for entertainment
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What is a rhyme scheme?
An alphabetical labelling system used to describe the rhyming pattern in a poem
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What is figurative language?
The use of figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc
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What is a poetic diction?
The words the poet selects to express his/her meaning
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What is pathetic fallacy?
Nature reflects the emotions of characters and the mood of events in the story or poem

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