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Title: Poetic Device

Description: sonnet, metaphor etc.. shakespeare time

Total Flash Cards: 16

Created: 04/22/2008 17:46:49

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Soliloquy
 Definition
Speech by a character alone on stage
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Aside
 Definition
speech directed to audience or singlie character
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Foreshadowing
 Definition
Hint of future events
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Prologue
 Definition
Introduction given by the chorus
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Rhyme Scheme
 Definition
Pattern of rhymes in a poem (ABAB)
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Rhymed Couplet
 Definition
Pairs of rhyming lines (AA BB CC)
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Iambic Pentameter
 Definition
A pattern of rhythm consisting of alternating unstressed and stressed syllales with a total of five stresses per line
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blank verse
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Unrhymed iambid pentameter
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Sonnet
 Definition
14 line poem. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Paradox
 Definition
"My only love, sprung form my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
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Oxymoron
 Definition
ex. Heavy Lightness
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Pun
 Definition

A play o wodrs which sound similar 

ex. sole/soul
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Metaphor
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Comparison between unlike things
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Simile
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Like or as
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Personification
 Definition
Comparison that gives human qualities to something inhuman
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