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poetry
poetic devices
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English
9th Grade
11/11/2010

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what r the 3 types of irony?
Definition
verbal, situational, and dramatic
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what is verbal irony?
Definition
contradiction of expectations between what ios said and what is meant
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what is situational irony?
Definition
contradiction between what happens and what one would expect to happen
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what is dramatic irony?
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when a character speaks in ignorance of a situation jnown to the audience or other characters
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allteration is? and exampleeeee
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the repition of constant sounds, particulary at the beginnning of words "crazy conniving clowns"
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Assonance is?
Definition
the repition of similar vowel
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Elision is?
Definition
the ommision if an unstressed vowel or syllabe to preserve the meter of a line of poetry ex "th'"
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Onomatopoeia is:
Definition
the use of words to imitate the sounds that they describe (POW!!!)
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Allusion:
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is a refrence to aperson, event, of work outside the poem or literary piece
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Apostrophe:
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a direct adress of an inanimate abstrct qualities, or a person not living or present
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hyperbole:
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exaggeration for emphasis
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metonymy:
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a closley related term substituted for an object or an idea
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Oxymoron
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"jumbo shrimp!!!!!!"
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Paradox:
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situation or phrase which conatins truth nonetheless "when the man became blind he began to see"
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Personification:
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the giving of inanmiate or nonhuman objects living or human qualiteis
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Naritive-
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tells a story
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Lyric-
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song like
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Ballad-
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actually musical in nature
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epic-
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heroic legend
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Elegy-
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deals with death
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fable-
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contains a moral
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sonnet-
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14lines with specific rhyme
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scheme-
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shakespearean, petrarchan
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blank verse-
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unrymed lambic pantameter
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haiku-
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japanese 5-7-5
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limerick-
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5 lines humerous
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