Terms

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Allegory

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A short moral story where a lesson is learned

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same constant sound at the beginning of 2 or more words.

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Allusion

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A figure of speech, reference/representation of/to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

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Analogy

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A comparison between two things

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Apostrophe

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Addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present.

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in a line of poetry

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Ballad

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A narrative song written in quatrains

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Blank verse

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Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Connotation

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The attitudes and feelings associated with a word

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Consonance

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The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a line of poetry

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Couplet

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A pair of lines with rhyming end words

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Denotation

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The literal or dictionary definition of a word

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Didactic

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A type of poem with a purpose of teaching something

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Dilemma

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A choice between two undesirable situations

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Dissonance

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A relation or state of tension between various tones

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Elegy

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A mournful poem; a lament for the dead

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Epic

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Narrative poetry, usually told or written in an elevated style, that recounts the life of a hero

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Epiphany

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A sudden revelation of truth inspired by a seemingly trivial incident.

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Epigram

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An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement.

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Epitaph

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A summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

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Euphemism

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A nice way of saying something bad

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Euphony

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Phonetic tendency towards ease of pronunciation and pleasing acoustic effect

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Free verse

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Genre

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The classification of literary works according to common elements of content, form, or technique.

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Hyperbole

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An extreme exaggeration

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Iambic pentameter

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Poetry with each line consisting of ten syllables divided up into five unstressed and stressed syllables

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Imagery

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Images created in the mind from any literature

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Irony

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What a speaker or a writer says is not what s/he means or is generally understood.

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Literal language

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Language that is matter-of-fact: not metaphorical or figurative.

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Lyric poem

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A type of poem that expresses the personal emotions

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

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Octave

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Eight-line stanza

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Ode

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Lyric poem that praises people and sometimes objects.

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Onomatopoeia

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When the pronunciation of a word sounds the same as the action the word makes. Ex. Bang, clank

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Oxymoron

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Two contradictory statement

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Pastoral

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A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds

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Personification

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Gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human traits and qualities, such as emotions

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Pun

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A humorous play on words

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

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Repetition

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The repetition of a word or phrase, for emphasis

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Rhyme

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Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhymes established in a poem

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Rhythm

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Recurring at regular intervals

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Satire

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A criticism of society, usually through humour

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Sestet

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A six line stanza

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Simile

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A comparison using like or as

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Speaker

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The narrator

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Stanza

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A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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Style

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Manner how something is done or how it happens

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Stylistic technique

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Point of view, tone, diction, narrative pace, humour, imagery, irony, figurative language and many more

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Symbolism

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A deeper meaning of anything

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Understatement

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The opposite of hyperbole, understatement refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended.

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Voice

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The style the speaker uses

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Wit

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Humour