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Apostrophe

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Addressing an inanimate object or absent person.
(Talking as if they can hear you)

ex: Dear Santa

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Allusion

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A Reference to something : Familiar
Historical
Mythological
Biblical
Literary

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Cliche

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An over-used word or phrase

ex. Holy Cow

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**Connotation

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All of the hidden meaning

ex. Red means love or anger

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**Denotation

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The literal meaning

ex. The colour Red

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Diction

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Word Choice

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Irony

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Something unexpected

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Verbal Irony

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What a character says isn’t what they mean

ex. Dracula “I hope you have a wonderful time in my castle.”

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Dramatic Irony

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When the audience knows something, but the character does not

ex: We know that Dracula’s visitor is doomed

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Situational Irony

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A twist ending

ex. The visitor turns out to be a vampire slayer

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Euphemism

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Using gentler words to express something unpleasant

ex: The dog was put to sleep

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

ex: This weighs a ton

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Visual Imagery

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Appeals to Sight

ex: The sun shone brightly

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Auditory Imagery

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Appeals to Hearing

ex: The booming thunder

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Tactile

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Appeals to Touch

ex: The ruff sandpaper

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Olfactory

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Appeals to Smell

ex: The smokey waft of leather

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Gustatory

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Appeals to Taste

ex: The bitterness of day old coffee

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Thermal

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Sense of Temperature

ex: The crisp frozen air

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Kinistheic

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Sense of movement

e: The branches waved in the breeze

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Metaphor

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Comparison without using ‘like’ or ‘as’

ex: Her anger was a tidal wave

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Extended Metephor

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A Metephor that continues throughout the poem

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Mood

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How the reader is supposed to feel

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Oxymoron

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Two words that contradict each other

ex: Pretty Ugly, Blinding Sight

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Paradox

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A contradictory statement that is true

ex: We fight for peace

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

ex: The tree’s arms waved in the breeze

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Simile

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Comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

ex: I’m as hungry as a horse

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Symbolism

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A word that symbolizes something else

ex: Dove = Peace, love Heart = health, love

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Tone

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How the author feels

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Alliteration

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Repetition of constant sounds

Ex: Dining doves drift down to dine

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

ex: PIe In the skY

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Consonance

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Repetition of constant sounds in a line of poetry

ex: The bitter batter hit its highest point

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Onomatopoeia

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sounds

ex: bang, crash, crackle, swish

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Metre

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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Iambic

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U/

Bal/loon

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Trochiac

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/U

ex: Ti/ger

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Ancipestic

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UU/

ex: Un/der/stand

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Dactyllic

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/UU

ex: Sen/ten/ces

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Amphibrachic

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U/U

ex: van/cou/ver

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Spondaic

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//

ex: man/made

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monometer

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1 foot

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dimeter

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2 feet

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trimeter

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3 feet

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tetremeter

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4 feet

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pentameter

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5 feet

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hexameter

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6 feet

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heptameter

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7 feet

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octometer

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8 feet

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Rhyme

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Repetition of the same sounds in a word

ex: bye, sigh, cry, die

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhymes within a line

ex: ice mast high, went floating by

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End Rhyme

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Rhymes at the end of lines

ex: Humpty Dumpty Sat On A Wall,
Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall.

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Single Rhyme

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One syllable rhymes

ex: By, defy, sigh

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Double Rhyme

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Two syllables Rhyme

ex: Berry, Ferry

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Triple Rhyme

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3 Syllables Rhyme

ex: Rectify, Delectify

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Perfect (Masculine) Rhyme

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Perfect Rhyme

ex: Down, Town, Frown

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Imperfect (Feminine) Rhyme

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Imperfect Rhyme

ex: Food, Good

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Rhyme Scheme

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The rhyme pattern

ex: ABBA, AABB, ABAB, CDCD

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Ballad

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Quatrain of alternating Iambic Pentameter & Trimeter

ex: And as I lay me down to sleep,
I knew I wouldn’t die
For God I knew my soul would keep

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Couplet

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Two lines that express a complete thought & Rhyme

ex: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

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Quatrain

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Four lines that express a complete thought & rhyme

ex: The way a crow
Shook down on me
A dust of snow …..

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Sestet

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Six lines that express a complete thought & rhyme

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Refrain

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A line or phrase that repeats THROUGHOUT the poem

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Stanza

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A poetry paragraph

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Free Verse

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No rhyme, no meter

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed lines, Iambic Pentameter

ex: Shakespeare plays

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Narrative

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a poem that tells a story

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Ballad

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Short, simple repetitive story

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Epic

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long story of a hero

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Dramatic Monologue

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A poem where the speaker is a character who is addressing the audience

ex: Soliloquies from Macbeth

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Lyric

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Short, Personal Poem - expressing deep feeling & thought. Rhymes

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Elegy

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Poem expressing death of a person, or age

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Ode

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Poem written in praise of someone or something

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Sonnet

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14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter, with rhyme scheme

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Haiku

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3 line poem of 17 syllables

ex: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

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Limerick

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5 line humorous poem, AABBA

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Parody

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Poem that imitates another

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Satire

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A humorous piece written to criticize

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