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1
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Allegory

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Interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

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Alliteration

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Occurrence if the same letter or sound at the beginning of close words

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Allusion

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Reference to

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Anaphora

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Repetition of worries or phrases in a group of sentences

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5
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Apostrophe

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Direct speech to an abstract concept or person who’s not physically present

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Assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound near each other

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Asyntedon

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A sense of conjunction between parts of a sentence

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Ballad

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Narrating poem in a short stanza

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Caesura

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Pauses in the middle of a line

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Cacophony

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Harsh sounds and combination of consonant in a group of words

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11
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Cliche

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And overused phrase

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Concrete poetry

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Objects composed of words

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Consonance

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Same consonance sound in a group of words

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14
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Couplet

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2 line stanza

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15
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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows what the character doesnt

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Elegy

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Poem of reflection

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17
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Enjabment

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Absence of punctuation at the end of a line

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Epic

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Lengthy narrative

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Epitaph

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Short poem for a tombstone

20
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Extended metaphor

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Metaphor extended over multiple lines

21
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Euphony

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Pleasing to ear

22
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Free verse

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Open poetry

23
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Heterometric stanza

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Lines varying in lengths

24
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Hyperbole

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Overexageration

25
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Hyphora

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When question is posed then answered

26
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Internal rhyme

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Ryne in a single line

27
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Isometric stanza

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Stanza with same line lengths

28
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Juxtaposition

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Two things close to create a contrast effect

29
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Lyric

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Poem that expresses personal emotion

30
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Metaphor

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Comparing something to something else

31
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Octave

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8 stanza

32
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Ole

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Poem praising someone or something

33
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Onomatopoeia

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Sounds for words

34
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Organic imagery

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Emotions

35
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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech when opposites are used beside each other

36
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Paradox

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Statement that contradicts itself

37
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Polysyndeton

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Overwhelming list

38
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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

39
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Rhyme scene

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Patter of rhyme at the end of each stanza

40
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Sonnet

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14 line poem

41
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Synecdoche

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Part of something is used to refer to s whole

42
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Syntax

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Order of words

43
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Tercet

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3 line stanza

44
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Tone

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Feeling of poem

45
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Understatement

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Representing something as less important

46
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Volta

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Shift or change in poem

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