Details Title: Poetic Device Description: sonnet, metaphor etc.. shakespeare time Total Flash Cards: 16 Created: 04/22/2008 17:46:49		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Writing Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Soliloquy Definition Speech by a character alone on stage Term Aside Definition speech directed to audience or singlie character Term Foreshadowing Definition Hint of future events Term Prologue Definition Introduction given by the chorus Term Rhyme Scheme Definition Pattern of rhymes in a poem (ABAB) Term Rhymed Couplet Definition Pairs of rhyming lines (AA BB CC) Term Iambic Pentameter Definition A pattern of rhythm consisting of alternating unstressed and stressed syllales with a total of five stresses per line Term blank verse Definition Unrhymed iambid pentameter Term Sonnet Definition 14 line poem. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Term Paradox Definition "My only love, sprung form my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" Term Oxymoron Definition ex. Heavy Lightness Term Pun Definition A play o wodrs which sound similar  ex. sole/soul Term Metaphor Definition Comparison between unlike things Term Simile Definition Like or as Term Personification Definition Comparison that gives human qualities to something inhuman Term Definition