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Similar but not identical vowel sounds
Bear it/Merit
Half (near) rhymes
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Words that coincide in spelling but not in sound
Home/Come
Sight Rhymes
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What are the types of rhyme schemes?
Masculine, feminine, half, and sight
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A pattern of lines which usually presents a unit of poetic experience.
Stanza
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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme
Couplet
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Four-line iambic, alternately tetrameter and trimester, abcb
Ballad stanza
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Three lines
Triplet or tercet
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three lines rhyming aba, bcb, cdc
Terza Rima
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Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter
Sonnet
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Petratchan -
Octave or octet: abbaabba
Sestet: cdcdcd
Italian sonnet
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Shakesperian: ababcdcdefefgg
English sonnet
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
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no set rhythm or rhyme scheme
free verse
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stated comparison, using like or as
simile
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an implied comparison, does not use like or as
metaphor
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giving human characteristics to an object, animal, or concept
personification
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using the part for the whole
(all hands on deck)
synecdoche
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describing one thing by using the term for another thing closely associated with it
(the suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings)
metonymy
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overstatement
(I'm going to be studying all week)
hyperbole
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understatement, frequently double negatives
(not bad)
litotes
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an address: To a Wasp
apostrophe
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a situation, or use of language, involving some kind of discrepancy
(a sailor says "water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink)
irony
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a statement whose surface meaning seems illogical, but which makes sense on closer examination:
It takes money to make money
paradox
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a reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event
(9/11)
Allusion
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A condensed paradox, placing two contradictory words together:
thunderous silence
oxymoron
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repetition of consonant sounds:
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Alliteration
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Repetition of vowel sounds:
Try to light the fire
Assonance
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a pause, usually marked by punctuation
Caesura
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the use of words which mimic their meaning in their sound:
buzz, murmur, snap
onomotopoeia
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the continuation of a sentence in a poem so that it spills over from one line to the next
enjambment
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the representation through language of the sense experience
imagery
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blending of images appealing to more than one sense
synaesthesia
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when poetry is written in the shape of what it is about
concrete poetry
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Name the types of imagery.
visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, organic, kinesthetic
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I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend
kinesthetic
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magnified apples appear and disappear...every fleck of russet showing clear
visual
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the rumbling .. of load on load of apples coming in.
auditory
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Essence of winter sleep in on the night, the scent of apples
olfactory
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mouth-puckering sour candy
gustatory
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the feel of velvet
tactile
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My instep arch not only keeps the ache, It keeps the pressure of a ladder round
organic
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