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alliteration

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apples and animals – rhythm + attention

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allusion

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reference, most often to bible, greek myth, or shakespeare

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antithesis

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juxtaposition using parallelism – emphasize differences

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apostrophe

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addresses a person, concept or object that is not physically there (e.g. Death)

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assonance

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identical vowel sounds – rhythm

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ballad

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song-like work with sensational subject matter, refrain, repetition. often in common meter (quatrains w lines alternating from iambic tetrameter to trimeter)

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ballad meter

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common meter: ABCB rhyme scheme, quatrains w lines alternating from iambic tetrameter to trimeter

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blank verse

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unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter

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cacophony

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bad sound; creates sense of danger or fear, usually with harsh K, B, D, T, G

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caesura

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audible pause in the verse/METER; often marked with commas or semicolons

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carpe diem

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“seize the day” in Latin; encourages people to live in the present since time is fleeting (make the most of life)

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conceit

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a fanciful metaphor used to create an extended meaning. “x is like y” … no, you’re better than y, or worse than y

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consonance

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mike likes his new bike – rhythm

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couplet

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two lines

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devices of sound

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assonance, cacophony, consonance, euphony, and sibilance

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diction

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choice of words or phrases

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didactic poem

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poem that teaches a lesson

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dramatic monologue

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poem in the form of speech for an individual character, lending insight to their motivations and personality. addresses silent listener. e.g. “the love song” by t.s. elliot

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dramatic poem

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a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieveing poetic ends

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elegy

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a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme

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end stop

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line in a poem that ends with a . – emphasis

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enjambment

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breaking of a phrase into two / or more lines. – rhythm

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extended metaphor

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an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem.

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euphony

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good sound – L, M, N, R

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eye rhyme
words that look like they should rhyme but don't, e.g. dead and read
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feminine rhyme
a rhyming between stressed syllables (that are followed by one or more unstressed) e.g. STOCKing and SHOCKing, GLAMorous and AMorous
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figurative language
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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free verse
no particular structure
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heroic couplet
confined statement: rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter
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hyperbole
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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imagery
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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irony
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internal rhyme
rhyme within a single line
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lyric poem
a short song-like poem expressing deeply personal messages
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masculine rhyme
a rhyming between final stressed syllables e.g. BLOW and FLOW, conFESS and reDress
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metaphor
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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anapestic meter
u u / (e.g. obsolete)
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trochaic meter
/ u (e.g. twinkle)
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dactylic meter
/ u u (e.g. anxiously)
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iambic meter
u /
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metonymy
replacing word or phrase with related one (e.g. monarchy with crown)
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mixed metaphor
combination fo two incompatible metaphors
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narrative poem
poems that tell a story (usually longer works like the illiad)
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octave
eight line stanza or poem
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ode
lyrical poem addressed to specific thing / person the poet wants to celebrate
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onomatopoeia
sound with word like bark
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oxymoron
form of paradox - combines two contradictory terms in a single phrase
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paradox
a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.
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parallelism
same grammatical structure when speaking about two ideas to show their similarity
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paraphrase
a restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form
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pastoral
relationship between humans and nature, describing nature heavily, mostly romanticized view (shepherding imagery)
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personification
a kind of metaphor that give inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
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pun
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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quatrain
stanza of four lines
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refrain
line / lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, usually at the end of a stanza
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rhyme
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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rhyme royal
seven line stanza of iambic pentameter ABABBCC -- medieval poetry like Chaucer
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rhythm
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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sarcasm
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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satire
writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule
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scansion
process of determining meter
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sestet
six line stanza
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sestina
six stanzas of six lines -- final word of each line is 123456/612345 etc. -- seventh stanza is three lines using all 6 end words
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simile
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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sonnet
iambic pentameter, 14 lines, ABAB, ends in GG
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stanza
grouping of lines
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strategy
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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structure
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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style
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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synecdoche
replacing a word with one of its parts (e.g. people with mouths, people with faces, American flag with stars and stripes)
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syntax
arrangement of words or phrases to create meaningful sentences
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tercet
three line stanza
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terca rima
tercets that follow ABA BCB CDC etc
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theme
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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tone
yknow what it is. dj khaled!
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understatement
particular quality of a situation / person / object is downplayed -- satiricial OR emphasis
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villanelle
a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain

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