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what is a speaker?

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the voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction.

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what are rhyming couplets?

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couplets (a pair of successive lines of verse) that rhyme.

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what is sestet?

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the last six lines of a sonnet.

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what is ‘lyrical ballad’?

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a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798.

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what is repetition?

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the use of the same word or phrase multiple times.

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what is assonance?

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the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.

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what is caesura?

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a pause or stop in a metrical line.

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what is refrain?

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a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem.

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what is free verse?

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any form of poetry that does not rely on consistent patterns of rhyme and meter.

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what is blank verse?

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poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

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what is an octet?

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an eight line stanza.

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what is quatrain?

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a series of four-lines that make one verse of a poem, known as a stanza.

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what is semantic field?

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a technique often used by writers to keep a certain image persistent in their readers’ mind.

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what is sibilance?

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a type of literary device and figure of speech wherein a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of ‘s’ sounds.

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what is symbolism?

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the use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events.

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define ‘determine’.

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to firmly decide.

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define ‘ellipses’

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a set of dots (…) indicating an ellipsis.

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what is juxtaposition?

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the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

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what is modifier?

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a word, especially an adjective or noun used attributively, that restricts or adds to the sense of a head noun (e.g. good and family in a good family house ).

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what is oxymoron?

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

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what is an antonym?

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a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ).

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what is a synonym?

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a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close.

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what is pathetic fallacy?

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the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

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what are personal pronouns?

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each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case.

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what is enjambment?

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(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

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what is role?

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a characters part in a poem or story.

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what is innotation?

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a matter of variation in the pitch of the voice.