Poerty terms

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Anaphora

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The repition of a word or a phrase, usually at the beginning of a line

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Alliteration

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The repitition of sounds in a sequence of words

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Allegory

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narrative with two levels of meaning, one stated and one unstated

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Apostrophe

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direct adress to an absent or otherwise unresponsive entity (etc, someone dead)

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Assonance

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The repition of vowel sounds

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Beat

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a stressed(or accented) syllable

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Binary

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dual,twofold,charatised by two parts

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Blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentamerter

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caesura

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an audible pause internal to a line, usually in the middle. (An audible pasue at the end of a line is called an end-stop)

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Ccophony

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a harsh discordant mixture of sounds

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Climax

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The high point, the moment od greatest tension or intensity.

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consonance

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the repition of consonant sounds

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually rhymed

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Diction

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word choice, specifically the “class” or “kind” of words chosen

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Elegy

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since the 17th century,usually denotes a reflective poem

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enjambed

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a “run on” line that carries over into the next to complete its meaning

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euphony

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combining of words that sounds pleasent together or are easy to pronounce

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Imagery

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the visual (or other sensory) pictures used to render a description more vivid and immediate

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Rhythm

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the patterns of stresses,unstressed syllables and pauses in language

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Simile

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figure of speech the compares two distinct things by using a connective word such as “like” or “as”

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Speaker

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The “I” of a poem,equivalent to the narrator of a pose text

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Speech act

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the manner of expression (as copossed to the context)

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stanza

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a verse of the poem

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symbol

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an image that stands for somthing larger and more complex

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Symbolism

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the serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other things or ideas

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole e.g “wheel” for “car”

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Tone

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the speakers author’s attitude towrds the reader, adressee,or subject matter

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Trope

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a figure of speech

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Valediction

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and act or utterance of farewell