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Alliteration

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the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words

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allusion

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a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work

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antithesis

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a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas

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apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present

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assonance

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the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

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ballad meter

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a four line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three three feet in lines two and four

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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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cacophony

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a harsh combination of sounds or tones

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caesura

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a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse

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Conceit

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an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception

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consonance

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the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words

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couplet

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a two line stanza

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devices of sound

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the techniques of deploying the sound of words

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diction

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the use of words in a literary work

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didactic poem

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a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson

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dramatic poem

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a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson

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elegy

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a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme

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end-stopped

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a line with a pause at the end

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enjambment

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the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next

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extended metaphor

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an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem

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euphony

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a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. It’s opposite is cacophony

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eye rhyme

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rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation

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feminine rhyme

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a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed

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figurative language

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writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, irony, and simile

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free verse

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poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical

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heroic couplet

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two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb,cc, with the thought usually completed in the two line unit

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hyperbole

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a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

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imagery

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the images of literary work

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irony

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the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. differs from sarcasm

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internal rhyme

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rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end

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lyric poem

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any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thought and feelings

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masculine rhyme

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rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words

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metaphor

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a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like as like or than

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meter

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the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

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metonymy

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a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself

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mixed metaphors

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the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous

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narrative poem

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a non dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative whether simple or complex long or short

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octave

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an eight line stanza

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onomatopoeia

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the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning

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oxymoron

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a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression

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paradox

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a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at lease to make sense

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parallelism

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a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry

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paraphrase

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a restatement of an ideas in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form

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personification

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a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characterisitics

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poetic foor

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a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it

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pun

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a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings

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quatrain

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a four line stanza with any combination of rhymes

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refrain

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a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza

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rhyme

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close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse

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rhyme royal

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a seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc

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rhythm

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the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables

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sarcasm

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a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it

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satire

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writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule.

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scansion

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a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line

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sestet

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a six line stanza

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simile

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a directly expressed compatison

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sonnet

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normally a fourteen line iambic pentameter poem

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stanza

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usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme

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strategy

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the management of language for a specific effect

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structure

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the arrangement of materials within a work

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style

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the mode of expression in language

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symbol

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something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else

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synecdoche

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a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole

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syntax

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the ordering of words into patterns or sentences

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tercet

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a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme

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terza rima

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a three line stanza rhymed aba bcb cdc

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theme

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the main thought expressed by a work

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tone

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the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude

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understatement

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the opposite of hyperbole, it is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is

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villanelle

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a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain

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