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Flashcards by Morgan Saunders, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Morgan Saunders
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of your" --"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, line 71 |
| Allusion | A reference to a real or fictional person, place, or work of art. Ex: Allusions to the Bible that we marked on "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds, typically in the same line of a text. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that mimics or imitates a sound. Ex. tapping, ring, ding, pow |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ___________ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. |
| Repetition | To tell or say the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer or create a certain feeling. |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using "like," "as," or "than." |
| Stanza | A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. |
| Symbol | An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |
| Theme | The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader. |
| Tone | The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character. |
| Line | A single line of poetry |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to nonhuman/nonliving things. |
| Rhyme Schemes | Poets organize rhyming words in a variety of patterns. |
| Rhyme | The similarity in sound between two words. |
| External Rhyme | Rhyming words at the end of lines. |
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