Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcard CKLA

Front

What are words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition, such as similes and metaphors?

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Figurative language

Front

What is an indirect reference to an outside work of art or a cultural figure?

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Allusion

Front

What is it called when the same form is repeated in a series of lines or stanzas in poetry?

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Parallel structure

Front

What do you call a poem about the craft of poetry?

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Ars poetica

Front

What is the attitude of a piece of writing, expressed through the style of writing and the words the author uses?

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Tone

Front

What is a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile

Front

What is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another?

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Metaphor

Front

What is a literary device that gives human qualities to non-human things?

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Personification

Front

What is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem?

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Rhyme scheme

Front

What is a group of four lines in a poem, often with a specific rhyme scheme?

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Quatrain