Literary Elements

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Imagery

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Painting a clear picture in the readers mind

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Allusion

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Reference to an outside source. Assumes the reader knows what is being referred to

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Tone

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The feeling behind the authors words

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Mood

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Feeling of oak to buy the written work

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Caesura

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A pause or sudden break in the line of poetry

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Canto

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A main division of a long poem

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Couplet

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Two lines of poetry that are the same length and usually rhyme

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Foot

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The smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable’s in a poetic line

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Heroic couplet

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To rhyming lines that contain a complete thought

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Meter

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A repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable’s in a line of poetry

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Refrain

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The reppetition of a line or phrase of the poem

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Stanza

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A division of poetry to group lines together

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Verse

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A metric line of poetry names according to the number of feet

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Free verse

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme but may rhyme; most modern poetry is free verse

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Blank verse

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Poetry that is unrhymed; each line consists of 10 syllables in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed; most often used with long poems and at times can stray from this specific form

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Sonnet

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Poetry that consist of 14 lines of iambic pentameter

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Ballad

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Poetry in verse form that tells a story

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Haiku

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Poetry that has three lines; the first line has five syllables, the second seven, and the third five.

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Limerick

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Rhyming poetry that is often lighthearted; contains five lines: 8 to 9 syllables in lines 12 and five and 5 to 6 syllables and lines 3 and four

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Leric

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Poetry and short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author; quite often, Lyric poems are set to music

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds; alliteration is a form of consonants limited to the first letter of each word

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyming words occurring in the same line of poetry

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of the word whose sound suggests it’s meaning

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Repetition

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Repeating of a word or phrase within a poem

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Rhyme

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Similarity of end sounds existing between two words

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Rhythm

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Occurrence of sound stresses in a pattern

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Analogy

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A comparison of two or more similar objects, suggesting that if they are alike in certain respects, they will probably be like in other ways as well

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Characterization

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The method an author uses to reveal or describe characters and their various personalities

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Empathy

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The act of putting yourself in someone else’s place and imagining how that person must feel

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Moral

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The particular value or less in the authors trying to get across to the reader

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Motif

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An often repeated idea or theme in literature

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Poetic justice

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A term that describes the character getting what he deserves, in the end, especially if what he deserves is punishment

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Total effect

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The general impression left with the reader by a literary work