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An extended metaphor in the form of a story in which the characters, places or objects carry a figurative meaning

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Allegory

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A reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place event or movement.

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Allusion

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A statement with two or more possible meanings. Also called double-meaning

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Ambiguity

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Similarities between two concepts or ideas, mentally linking them together

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Analogy

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Repetition of a word or words ath the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

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Anaphora

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Combining two opposite ideas or clauses with opposite meanings to achieve a contrasting effect

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Antithesis

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The speaker of a poem directly addresses an abstract or imaginary person

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Apostrophe

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A reference to a concept, a person or an object that is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again

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Archetype

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A form of poetry that tells a story

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Ballad

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A set of texts that serve as a recognized standard of stylistic quality

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Canon

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Embrace the pleasures of the moment

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Carpe Diem

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Overused expression

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Cliché

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A word that suggests or implies, as opposed to what it literally means

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Connotation

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A pair of successive rhyming lines that form a complete thought

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Couplet

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The exact dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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A formal lament on the death of a person

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Elegy

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The continuation from one line of verse into the next line. The running-over of phrase from one poetic line to the next

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Enjambment

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The use of a mild, indirect, or more polite term or expression instead of one considered too blunt or offensive

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Euphemism

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When a poet or writer gives a hint of upcoming events

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Foreshadowing

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The use of multiple senses to create a mental picture

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Imagery

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Word or a phrase that possesses a separate meaning form its literal form

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Figure of speech

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Type of poetry that does not follow a recognized structure

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Free verse

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An overstatement or a striking exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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An incongruity or discrepancy between two things. Words are used in such a manner that their intended meaning is different from the literal one

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Irony

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A direct comparison between two unlike things without the use of “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

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The feeling, the effect the poet tries to create for the reader/listener

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Mood

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A central or recurring image or element within a literary work that is repeated in a significant way

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Motif

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The story, the sequence of events and happenings

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Plot

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A lengthy poem, addressed to a praiseworthy person or thing

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Ode

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Words that sound like the action or thing they describe Ex: BANG!, whip, flop, buzz

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Onomatopoeia

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A two word phrase which is apparently contradictory. Usually consists of an adjective and a noun with conflicting meaning

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Oxymoron

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A statement that presents a contradiction or seems absurd Ex: schrödinger’s cat

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Paradox

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Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions. Very similar to a metaphor

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Personification

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The voice or figure of the author or poet who tells and structures the work; a dramatic character distinguished from the writer

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Persona

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A writers departure from the standard rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary

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Poetic licence

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The perspective from which a poem or story is narrated of view

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Point of view

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A humorous play on words

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Pun

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A phrase or line repeated at regular intervals within a poem. Similar to a song’s chorus

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Refrain

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The repetition of sounds of importantly positioned words in a poem.

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Rhyme

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To criticize with the use of ridicule or humor

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Satire

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Used to identify and establish the time and place of the events

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Setting

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An explicit comparison connected by the words “like” or “as”

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Simile

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A poem that has 14 lines, usually in 4 clusters (3 quatrains and a final couplet)

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Sonnet

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Poetry intended for performance. Contains elements of rap, hip-hop, storytelling, theater, and jazz, rock blues and folk music

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Spoken word poetry

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a “paragraph within the poem separated by blank lines

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Stanza

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Something physical that carries a meaning

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Symbol

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The underlying message or central idea of a poem

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Theme

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Choice of words that reflects the poet’s feelings towards the subject

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Tone

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Misstatement, that purposefully downplays of a situation

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Understatement

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A single or lone line in a poem

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Verse

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