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| repition of sound at the end of lines |
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| (ab,ab) pattern of end rhyme |
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| What is an internal rhyme? |
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| What is an alliteration (head rhyme)? |
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| repition of constanant sound at the beginning of words |
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| repitition of constanant sound at the beginning of words |
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| repition of the vowel sound (not spelling, example: once) |
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| What is the mood (atmosphere)? |
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| the emotional aura of the story or poem |
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| additude the writer brings to the work |
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| What is a rhetorical question? |
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| were an answer isn't expected |
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| Contrast between what the character says and means (sarcasm) |
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| Usually seen in plays. The contrast between what the character believes to be true, and what that audience knows to be true. |
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| What is situational irony? |
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| the contrast between the expectation of what seems appropriate and the actual outcome, or what proves to be the case. |
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| the real meaning, it can be positive, negative or neutral |
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| the mental impression the reader gets when the senses are appealed to. |
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| What is a dramatic monologue? |
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| Lyrical poem, 14 lines, Iambic pentameter, complicated rhyme scheme |
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| usually about nature, japanese poem |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter, poetry without the conventions of regular line length, rhyme and rhythms, instead it depends on the natural rhymthm of speech |
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| the form of the words and letters is apart of the meaning |
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| a song like outburst of a poets thoughts or feelings |
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| a poem written to the dead, or about the dead |
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| abituory. (book you get at funerals about the persons life) |
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| the message on the tombstone |
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| in praise of something or someone. |
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| What is an understatement? |
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| not stated to the extent it should be |
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| used to soften the effect |
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| change of name, substitute the name of the part, for the whole, or the whole for the part |
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| What is hyperbole? (exageration) |
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| means itself but has a second meaning |
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| seemingly self contradictory statement or situation which upon examination, proves to be true. |
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| two contradictory terms used together, "jumbo shrimp" |
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| change of name. A name is changed to something else that suggests the same thing. |
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| What is the definiton for "figure of speech?" |
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| a device that suggests meaning in addition to the literal meaning. |
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| a suggested comparisson between two different things, giving the chracteristics of one to the other |
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| a stated comparison between two different things, usually using words Like or As. |
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| human like characteristics to something that is not human... like an animal, object or concept. |
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| What is an allusion? (to refer to) |
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| reference to a story from history, religion, mythology, folklore |
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| when the poem addresses someone or an animal that is not there ("o" Canada) |
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| sound of the word suggests the sound itself |
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| What is cacophony? (discord, dimense)? |
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| discordant sound, not harmonous |
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| line of poetry that is repeated (beginning or end) |
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| pattern of stressed and unstressed symbols of stanza |
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| synonym for rhythm. a pattern of regular rhythm. |
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