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Poetic Devices
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English
9th Grade
02/25/2013

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The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme.
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Assonance
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The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words.
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Alliteration
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A phrase or sentence that contrast each other. Opposite .
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Antithesis
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Someone talks to a non-human or dead as if they could respond.
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Apostrophe
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Grammatical pause or break in a line --
or //.
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Caesura
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A metaphor that the whole poem is based around.
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Conceit
Term
The implied definition often a feeling.
Definition
Connotation
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The repetition of sound with different vowel sounds
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Consonance
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Dictionary definition
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Denotation
Term
When one sentance runs over two or more lines with no pause
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Emjambment
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Word or phrase that departs from every day language.
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Figure of speech
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An intentional overstatement
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Hyperbole
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Internal rhyme
Definition
rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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litotes
Definition
form of irony to make an understatement. Not bad
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comparison between 2 unlike thing without using like or as.
Definition
metaphor
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One word is substituted for another that closely associated
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metonymy
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onomatopoeia
Definition
sound words
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Personification
Definition
giving human attributes to any non-human things
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Refrain
Definition
one repeating phrase/word/lines
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Rhyme scheme
Definition
Pattern of rhymes between lines of a poem
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Simile
Definition
A figure of speech with 2 unlike things compared with like or as.
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Stanza
Definition
group of 2 or more lines in a poem
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Symbol
Definition
an object represent a abstract thought or greater theme
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Synecdoche
Definition
Part of something is used to refer to the whole.
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Theme
Definition
central idea
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tone
Definition
how the author feels about the topic
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