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Conceit

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Unconventional, logically complex, surprising metaphors.

Ex: Notion that a pair of lovers’ separation takes place in the fertile days of summer and fall as opposed to winter.

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Metaphor

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Comparison between 2 unlike objects.

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Simile

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Essentially a metaphor using “like” or “as.”

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Metonymy

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Long-term metaphor using a physical object to represent actual object associated with it.

Ex: He is nothing but a suit. The White House… The Crown.

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Synecdoche

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Using a body part to represent greater ideas.

Ex: Lend me your ears!

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Symbol

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Something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, action that has both a literal and metaphorical meaning.

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Image

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Description of something or someone; it is a picture captured in words.

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Idiom

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Language specific to a dialect and cultural conventions.

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Diction

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Style of expression, patterns of language, actual words selected.

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Allusion

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A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.

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End Stop

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When a line stops in the middle. Often is marked by a semi-colon, colon, or period.

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Enjambment

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Run-on sentence in poetry (sentence or phrase runs into next line).

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Caesura

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Pause or breath Ina a poetic line. Look for commas, semi-colons, colons, periods, and other punctuation marks.

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Foot

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2 syllables.

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Iamb

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Ba BUM.

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Trochee

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Metrical foot: accented syllables followed by unaccented syllable.

BA Bum.

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Spondee

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Two equally accented syllables in a metrical foot.

BUM BUM.

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Dactyl

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Metrical foot with one accented syllable followed by two unaccented.

BUM Ba Ba.

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Anapest

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Metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable.

Ba Ba BUM.

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Pentameter

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5 feet.

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Di-Meter

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Two metrical feet.

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Regular Meter

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Consistent meter; you can hear a regular beat.

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Irregular Meter

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Inconsistent meter; you cannot hear a regular beat.

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Free Verse

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No structure.

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End Rhyme

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Rhyming last words of lines.

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Eye Rhyme

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Imperfect rhyme but has similar vowel sounds.

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Slant Rhyme (Half Rhyme)

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Last words kind of rhyme, close enough.

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme within a line.

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Couplet

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Two lines rhyming.

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Consonance

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Repeating consonant sounds at beginning or end of words.

Ex: Bed and bad; bud and dab.

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Assonance

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Repeating vowel sounds with no repeating consonants.

Ex: Leaping, deep people.

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Alliteration

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Repeating sound of one specific consonant that is stressed and comes at the start of the words.

Ex: Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.

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Repetition

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Repeating words.

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Onomatopoeia

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Using words that sound like the sounds.

Ex: “Buzz.”

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Euphony

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Pleasing, harmonious sounds.

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Cacophony

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Displeasing, unharmonious sounds.

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Parallelism

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Repeating grammar and syntax.

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Antithesis

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Opposites.

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Anastrope

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Inversion of usual syntax for rhetorical effect.

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Parentheses

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( )

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Apposition (Appositive)

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Noun or noun phrase that describes the preceding noun further.

Ex: My mother, the baker, breadwinner, and best friend.

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Ellipsis

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…

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Asyndenton

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Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join clauses or sentences.

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Polysyndenton

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Repetition of conjunctions to join clauses or sentences.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of phrases typically at the beginning of line/phrase for rhetorical effect.

Ex: Mad world, mad dog!

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Climax

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Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance.

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Apostrophe

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Addressing someone or something absent from text rhetorically.

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Puns

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Play on words.

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Personification

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Imbuing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities.

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate use of exaggeration.

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Litotes

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Deliberate use of understatement, typically phrased in the negative; “That’s not unreasonable considering the options.”

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Rhetorical Question

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Asking a question not for the purpose of electing an answer, but to assert or deny something.

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Irony

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Incongruity between what is presented and what is meant; use of language to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.

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Oxymoron (Paradox)

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An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains truth.

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Aubade

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Poem greeting the morning.

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Ballad

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Popular narrative song usually passes down, usually rhyming.

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Dirge

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Song of grief usually given at a funeral; shorter and less meditative than an elegy.

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Elegy

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Laments someone’s death but ends with consolation and comfort.

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Hymn

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Spiritual poem typically praising God.

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Ode

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Tribute to something that is still present.

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Pastoral

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Poem dealing with rural life.

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Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

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14 lines: Octave, sestet, NO rhyming couplet.

8-6 or 4-4-3-3

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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14 lines: 3 quatrains with rhyming couplet at end.

4-4-4-2

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Villanelle

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Five 3-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.

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Dramatic Monologue

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Speaker addresses someone specific who is present but not speaking (not intending for audience).

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Soliloquy

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Usually mostly in drama, when a speaker shares inner thoughts and feelings with the audience.

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Narrative Poem

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Tells a story.

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Sestina

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A lyrical fixed form consisting of six 6-line (usually unrhymed) stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as the middle and end words of the three verses of the concluding tercet.

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