English- Poetry Key Terms

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Exordium
Addressing the listener
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Narratio
Introducing and then developing a main point
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Confirmatio
Evidence or proof used within an argument
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Confutatio
Dealing with objections (Responding in an argument)
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Conclusio
Summing up the decision that has been reached
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Ecphonesis
Words or phrases that use exclamations
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Parrallelism
Similar structure in a series of similar words or phrases
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Antithesis
A juxtaposition of contrasting ideas
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Asyndeton
Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses (lists)
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Polysyndeton
Deliberate use of many conjunctions (list with and repeated)
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Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sound
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Anaphora
Repetition of the same word
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Consonance
Constant sound created across words
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Epistrophe
Repetition of a word or clause at the end of lines
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Epanalepsis
Repetition of a word or clause at the beginning of a line
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Anadipolsis
Repetition of a word or clause at the end of one line which starts off the beginning of the next line
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Hyperbole
Use of exaggerated terms
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Onomatopoeia
Use of words where the sound echos the sense
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Oxymoron
Two terms which are contradictory
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Paradox
An apparent contridiction
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Prelapsarian
Existing before the Fall of Man
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Postlapsarian
Existing/ Ocurring After the Fall of Man
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Card 2

Front

Introducing and then developing a main point

Back

Narratio

Card 3

Front

Evidence or proof used within an argument

Back

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Card 4

Front

Dealing with objections (Responding in an argument)

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Summing up the decision that has been reached

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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