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- Attentiveness
- Concentration
- Experiment
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- Form
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| Practice of creating artworks using language |
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| A figure of speech that compares two unlike things, without using like or as |
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| Literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose it or correct it |
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| A phrase or saying that gives advice in an obscure way |
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| A term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes like buzz, rattle, bang and sizzle |
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Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words: luscious lemons
Based on sound rather than spelling |
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| Repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words: time tied eye. |
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| Way of creating sound patterns- 2 or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds: vain, reign, pain |
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| Spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are not: bough and cough |
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| Most common form of rhyme and comes at the end of lines |
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| Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line |
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| Rhyming of single-syllable words: glad and shade |
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| Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables: butter, clutter |
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| Share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel |
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| The sounds are almost but not exactly alike, ex. consonance |
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| Identical consonant sound preceeded by a different vowel sound: trophy, daffy |
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| Use of elevated language over ordinary language |
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| Consists of dignified, impersonal and elevated us of language |
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| Spoken by most educated people |
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| Cololoquially, reflects casual, conversational language, slang |
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| Defined by trade or profession |
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| Literal dictionary meanings of words |
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| Associations and implications that go beyond the word's literal meaning |
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| Spoken by definable groups of people from a particular geographic region, economic group, or social class |
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| Speaker created by the poet |
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| Allows 2 or more interpretations of a word, phrase, action or situation |
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| The ordering of words into meaninful verbal patterns |
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| The writer's attitude toward the subject, the mood created by all of the elements in the poem |
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| Type of poem in which a character- the speaker- addresses a silent audience in a way as to reveal unintentionally some aspect of his/her temperament or personality |
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| Brief reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature |
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| Emphasize significance or preserve a fleeting moment, don't have to be exclusively visual |
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| Type of metaphor where something is represented by a portion of itself, ex. "heavy boots walked away"- boots represent a person |
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| When poets use words in unique and unexpected ways |
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| Something that represents something else. An object, person, place, event or action can suggest more than its literal meaning |
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| What 2 things do symbols represent? |
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| It functions as itself, and it implies meanings beyond itself |
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Something that is recognized by many people for representing certain ideas
Conveys tone and meaning |
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| Literary/Contextual Symbol |
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| Goes beyond traditional, public meanings |
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| A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas |
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| Designed to teach an ethical, moral or religious lesson, specifically created to convey a message |
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| A technique that reveals a discrepancy between what appears to be and what is actually true (distinguish between appearance and reality) |
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| A difference between what appears to be true and what actually exists; what happens is entirely different from what is expected |
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| Saying something different from what is meant |
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| An example of the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in effort to expose or correct it |
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| When a writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does (difference between what what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true) |
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| When a writer uses God, destiny or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or humankind |
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| Situational Irony Distinguishes |
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| Expectations & What is Meant |
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| Verbal Irony Distinguishes |
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| What is Said & What is Meant |
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| Dramatic Irony Distinguishes |
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| What a character Believes & What the reader Knows to be true |
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| Cosmic Irony Distinguishes |
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| Character Aspires & What the Universe Provides |
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