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Cards Term What is a rhyme? Definition repition of sound Term What is end rhyme? Definition repition of sound at the end of lines Term What is a rhyme scheme? Definition (ab,ab) pattern of end rhyme Term What is an internal rhyme? Definition rhyme on the same line Term What is an alliteration (head rhyme)? Definition repition of constanant sound at the beginning of words Term What is a consenance? Definition repitition of constanant sound at the beginning of words Term What is an assenance? Definition repition of the vowel sound (not spelling, example: once) Term What is the mood (atmosphere)? Definition the emotional aura of the story or poem Term What is tone? (additude) Definition additude the writer brings to the work Term What is a rhetorical question? Definition were an answer isn't expected Term What is verbal irony? Definition Contrast between what the character says and means (sarcasm) Term What is dramatic irony? Definition Usually seen in plays. The contrast between what the character believes to be true, and what that audience knows to be true. Term What is situational irony? Definition the contrast between the expectation of what seems appropriate and the actual outcome, or what proves to be the case. Term What is denotation? Definition the literal meaning Term What is conotation? Definition the real meaning, it can be positive, negative or neutral Term What is diction? Definition word choice Term What is syntax? Definition word order Term What is imagery? Definition the mental impression the reader gets when the senses are appealed to. Term What is satire? Definition ridicules or makes fun Term What is a parody? Definition a humurous imitation Term What is a dramatic monologue? Definition long speech Term What is an epigram? Definition short, witty poem Term What is a didatic? Definition teaches a lesson Term What is a narrative? Definition tells a story Term What is a descriptive? Definition describes Term What is a sonnet? Definition Lyrical poem, 14 lines, Iambic pentameter, complicated rhyme scheme Term What is a haiku? Definition usually about nature, japanese poem Term What is a blank verse? Definition unrhymed iambic pentameter, poetry without the conventions of regular line length, rhyme and rhythms, instead it depends on the natural rhymthm of speech Term What is concrete poetry? Definition the form of the words and letters is apart of the meaning Term What is a lyric? Definition a song like outburst of a poets thoughts or feelings Term What is an elegy? Definition a poem written to the dead, or about the dead Term What is an eulogy? Definition abituory. (book you get at funerals about the persons life) Term What is an epitaph? Definition the message on the tombstone Term What is an ode? Definition in praise of something or someone. Term What is an understatement? Definition not stated to the extent it should be Term What is an euphesim? Definition used to soften the effect Term What is synectache? Definition change of name, substitute the name of the part, for the whole, or the whole for the part Term What is hyperbole? (exageration) Definition exageration for effect Term What is symbolism? Definition means itself but has a second meaning Term What is a paradox? Definition seemingly self contradictory statement or situation which upon examination, proves to be true. Term What is an oxymoron? Definition two contradictory terms used together, "jumbo shrimp" Term what is metonomy? Definition change of name. A name is changed to something else that suggests the same thing. Term What is the definiton for "figure of speech?" Definition a device that suggests meaning in addition to the literal meaning. Term What is a metaphor? Definition a suggested comparisson between two different things, giving the chracteristics of one to the other Term What is a simile? Definition a stated comparison between two different things, usually using words Like or As. Term What is personification? Definition human like characteristics to something that is not human... like an animal, object or concept. Term What is an allusion? (to refer to) Definition reference to a story from history, religion, mythology, folklore Term What is an apostrophe? Definition when the poem addresses someone or an animal that is not there ("o" Canada) Term What is an onometopoeia? Definition sound of the word suggests the sound itself Term What is cacophony? (discord, dimense)? Definition discordant sound, not harmonous Term What is euphony? Definition harmounous sound Term What is a chorus? Definition stanza that is repeated Term What is a refrain? Definition line of poetry that is repeated (beginning or end) Term What is rhythm? Definition pattern of stressed and unstressed symbols of stanza Term What is metre? Definition synonym for rhythm. a pattern of regular rhythm.