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Genre
The term for type or kind of literature, e.g. Prose, poetry, drama.
Half-rhyme
An imperfect rhyme
Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis
Hyphen
The punctuation mark that is used to join two sequence words together to form a new word with a meaning of its own. Or, to indicate a break in a word, often used at the end of one syllable and the reminder if the word begins the next line.
Image
A word picture, a description of some visible scene or object
Imagery
Commonly used to refer to the figurative language in a piece of literature or all the words which refer to objects and qualities which appeal to the senses and feelings.
Infinitive
To plus a verb form such as to jump or to swim
Interior monologue
An attempt to convey in words the process of consciousness or thought as a means of narrating a story.
Internal rhyme
A pair of words rhyming within a line of verse, rather than at the end of lines
Inversion
A departure from the normal words order. Word order bewitch is ok aces the verb before the subject or otherwise inverts the usual structure if a sentence with which re are familiar- subject, verb, object - and thereby puts emphasis on the word which is out of order
Inverted commas
” - indicates a tiptoe of a play, book, television program of to indicate spoken words, or to mark of an individual words of phrase form the rest of a sentence
Irony
The humorous or sarcastic use of words, implying the opposite of what they mean
Jargon
The special technical language of any trade, profession or branch of scholarship
Juxtaposition
The deliberate placement of words or phrases to achieve deliberate effect
Free verse
Verse released from the convection of metre. It is printed in broken up lines, is often very rhythmical, but overall cannot be resolved into regular lines with a repeated metrical pattern
