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1
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The repetition of usually consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

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Alliteration

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A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literacy, or political significance

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Allusion

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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An expert that cannot be understood from the meanings of it’s separate words but must be learned as a whole

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Idiom

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Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical sense

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Imagery

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The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement

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Meiosis (understatement)

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A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar

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Metaphor

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The forming of a word (as a “buzz” or “hiss”) in imitation of a natural sound

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Onomatopoeia

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Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature

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Personfication

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A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as

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Simile

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Two elements places together that are not only similar but polar opposites

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Antithesis

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Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses

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Asyndeton

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An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases

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Chiasmus

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The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

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Irony

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A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated

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Metonymy

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A statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer

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Rhetorical question

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A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole

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Synecdoche

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The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner it applies to each in a different sense of makes sense with only one

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Zeugma

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Diction

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Author’s use of words

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Syntax

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Order of words

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Denotation

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-Dictionary
-cannot be argued, no emotional response

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Connotation

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-feeling surrounding a word (emotional response)

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Tone

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Author’s attitude

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Mood

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Reader’s feelings

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She broke his car and heart

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Syntax

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Live; parish

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Antithesis

27
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Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

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Alliteration

28
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My being late was a blessing in disguise

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Idiom

29
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“ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch”
Mercurio after he is mortally wounded by Tybalt

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Meiosis (understatement)

30
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Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage help but just Ourselves -
And immortalized

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Personfication

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“I came; I saw; I conquered”

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Asyndeton
-More abrupt

32
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“all for one, and one for all”

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Chiasmus

33
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Referenced white house for president

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Metonymy

34
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Wheels = car

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Synecdoche
-a part of another word

35
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Paradox

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-self contradictory
Contrary to what it expected, contains a truth

36
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“This double chocolate is so good it’s evil”

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Paradox

37
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When there is a break at the end of a line (Any punctuation) that is…

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End-stopped

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The continuation (do not have a punctuation) of a sentence or clause over a line break; the thought runs on from one line to the next

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Enjambment

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A strong pause within a line, usually occur in the middle of a line

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Caesura

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Effect of Caesura

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Brief silence for thought or reflection during the line, may emphasize certain words

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Effect of enjambment

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Thought is continuing to the following line(s) the reader beings to wonder what’s next

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End-stopped effect

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-brief pause
-slows reading

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The correspondence between different words, or the ending of words

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Rhyme

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The repetition of vowel sounds (within the word)

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Assonance

45
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The repetition of initial consonant (first letter) sounds in adjacent or nearby sounds

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Alliteration

46
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The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within sounds

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Consonance

47
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A ‘softer’, more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

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Euphemism

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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Anaphora

49
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“What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil?

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Anaphora

50
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“Why, then O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!”

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Oxymoron

51
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This double chocolate ice cream is wonderfully evil

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Oxymoron

52
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A play on word

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Pun

53
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First letter of each line spells out a word or message

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Acrostic poem

54
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Narrative poem, old form of poetry, usually 4 stanzas

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Ballad

55
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Does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm
-modern poetry
-lack of rigid structure

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Free verse

56
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-famous poetic form
- rigid structure of 14 lines
Strict rhyming pattern

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Sonnet

57
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Pastoral or lyrical poem

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Villanelle

58
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3 lines with 5,7,5 syllables

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Haiku

59
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3 stanzas, 3 aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc
-strict rhyming structure

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Terza Rima

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Formal, often ceremonious lyric
- addresses/ celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea
- originally would have been sung

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Ode

61
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  • does not contain rhymes
  • 10 syllables, alternating between unstressed and stressed
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Blank verse

62
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  • long grand narrative
  • tells the heroic journey of a person or group of people
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Epic

63
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Silly or whimsical, short humorous story
- 5 lines
- aa, bb aa rhyming pattern

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Limerick

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Mournful or plaintive poem
- funeral song or lament for the dead

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Elegy

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