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Poetic Device
sonnet, metaphor etc.. shakespeare time
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Writing
9th Grade
04/22/2008

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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
Definition
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
Definition
Comparison between unlike things
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Simile
Definition
Like or as
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Personification
Definition
Comparison that gives human qualities to something inhuman
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