Content Vocab

Question 1

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it’s explicitly; and indirect or passing reference:

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Allusion

Question 2

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry:

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Rhyme

Question 3

To abstain from an impulse to say or do something:

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Refrain

Question 4

An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem:

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Stanza

Question 5

A unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art:

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Theme

Question 6

The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group:

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Alliteration

Question 7

Something used for our regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign:

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Symbol

Question 8

A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning three concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another

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Allegory

Question 9

A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance:

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Metaphor

Question 10

To indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o’er to indicate over, the possessive case

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Apostrophe

Question 11

Two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in length and grammatical form. Also called Parallelism:

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Parallel structure