Vocab Flashcard: "It Could Be Verse: Poetry Parlance"

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Define alliteration

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Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

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Define ambiguity

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Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

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Define assonance

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Repetition of similar vowels in successive words.

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Define couplet

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A stanza of two successive lines of verse.

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Define diction

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The manner in which something is expressed in words

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Define elegy

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A mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Define enjambment

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Continuation from one line of verse into the next line

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Define epic

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A long narrative poem about a hero's deeds.

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Define haiku

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An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines

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Define irony

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Incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs.