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What is Consonance?
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The repetition of consonant sounds,
but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
Ex: A worm named Maurice took the
garden by storm.
A brief reference to a real or fictional
person, event, place, or work of art.
The repetition of vowel sounds in a
chunk of text.
Ex: “Ivan will try to light the fire.”
A figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two things
using connecting words, such as
“like” or “as.”
Ex: Love is like a battlefield.
The author’s specific word choice.
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A brief reference to a real or fictional
person, event, place, or work of art.
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Ballad
Diction
Allusion
Free Verse
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What is Consonance?
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A brief reference to a real or fictional
person, event, place, or work of art.
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What is a Ballad?
3
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What is a Theme?
4
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This occurs when one line ends without a
pause or any punctuation and continues onto
the next line.
Ex: If this were a poem,
this would be
an example of the technique.
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The repetition of vowel sounds in a
chunk of text.
Ex: “Ivan will try to light the fire.”
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A word that sounds like what it means.
Ex: buzz, click, bang, sizzle
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The attitude the poem’s narrator (this
may or may not be the actual poet) takes
towards a subject or character: serious,
humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned,
tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
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The recurrence of stressed and unstressed
sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds
are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be
fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
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A unified group of lines in poetry.
This is often marked by spacing
between sections of the poem.
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A brief reference to a real or fictional
person, event, place, or work of art.
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The measured arrangement of
sounds/beats in a poem, including
the poet’s placement of emphasis
and the number of syllables per line.
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Poetry that does not rhyme or
have a measurable meter.
13
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What is a simile?
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What is a symbol?
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at
the beginning of adjacent or closely connected
words.
Ex: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
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A figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two things
without using connecting words,
such as “like” or “as.”
Ex: Love is a battlefield.
