Poetry and Literary Devices Flashcard

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Allusion

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Reference to history or literature to suggest an emotion or idea

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Apostrophe in poetry:

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Addressing someone absent or nonhuman as if alive.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals

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Couplet in poetry:

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2-line stanza, may or may not rhyme.

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End rhyme?

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Rhyme at the end of lines.

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Free verse in poetry

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Poetry not in a fixed form

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Imagery in poetry

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Use of images that appeal to the 5 senses

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Define internal rhyme.

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Rhyme within one or several lines.

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Metaphor in poetry:

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Implied comparison substituting figurative word for original term.

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Narrative poem

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Poem that tells a story