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Couplet

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Two successive lines (of poetry) usually of the same meter, linked by rhyme.

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End-Stopped Line

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A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation.

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Epigram

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A pithy saying

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Epigraph

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A quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter, or poem.

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Epithet

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A word that points out a characteristic of a person or thing that is used like a nickname

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Lyric Poetry

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A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating a single unified effect. Has numerous sub-classifications

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Ode

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A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose and dealing with one theme.

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Sonnet

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A fixed form of 14 lines, normally in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to one of two main types-the Italian or English

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Imagery

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Technique by which the author creates imagery

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Genre

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A category of literature composition

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Analogy

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A comparison of 2 things that are alike in certain aspects

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Metaphor

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A type of analogy in which identifies one object

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Allusion

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A passage reference to some extent

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Foil

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A character who, through contrast, underscores the characteristics of another.

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English (Shakespearian) Sonnet

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A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefg. Its content usually parallels with the rhyme scheme, with 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. A shift just before the couplet, but if structured like an Italian sonnet w/ an octave and a sestet, the shift occurs after the 8th line

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Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet

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A sonnet consisting of a rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet using any arrangement of 2 or 3 additional rhymes, shift occurs after 8th line

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Anachronism

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Assignment of something

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed, but otherwise regular verse (I.E. it has meter but no rhyme)

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Enjambment

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A line that has no natural speech pause

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Dramatic Irony

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The audience knows more about a characters situation than the character does

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Idiom

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Use of words peculiar to a given language, an expression that cannot be translated literally

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Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire work

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Meter

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The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

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Refrain

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A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form

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Structure

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The internal organization of a poems content

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Euphemism

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A device in which indirectness replaces the directness of a statement

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Understatement

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To represent w/ restraint

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Asyndenton

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Omission of connecting words in a list

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Motif

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Recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, actions, etc. That tend to unify a work of literature

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End Rhyme

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Rhymes that occur at the ends of the line

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Internal Rhyme

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A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line

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Oxymoron

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a self-contradicting combination of words

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Paradox

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A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may be actually well-rounded

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that by their sounds suggest their meaning

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Personification

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The representing of non-human things or ideas as having human characteristics

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Polysyndenton

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The repeated use of conjunctions to link together a succession of words, clauses, or sentences

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Allegory

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A form of extended metaphor in which the objects, person, places, and actions in a narrative are equated w/ meanings outside the narrative itself

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

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Antithesis

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A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words,clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is the balancing of one term against another

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Archetype

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An image, a descriptive detail, a play pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore

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Anaphora

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The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines

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Apostrophe

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The speaker addresses a dead(or absent) person or an abstraction or inanimate object- provides the speaker an opportunity to think aloud

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Verse

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Metrical language (writing using a meter); the opposite of prose

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Prose

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The ordinary form of spoken or written language, w/o metrical structure; not poetry

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Free Verse

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Nonmetrical poetry that does not follow establish norms

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Characterization

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The creation of imaginary persons by an author so that they seem lifelike

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Direct (characterization)

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The writer tells the reader what a character is like

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Indirect (characterization)

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The writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue and/or actions or through other characters

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Colloquialism

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An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing

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Satire

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Mode of writing that exposes the feelings of individuals, institutions, or societies that ridicule and scorn

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed, most often introduced by words such as like, as, compare, liken, resemble, etc

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Stanza

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A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout the poem

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Rhyme

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Ten repetition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding

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Rhyme Scheme

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A fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or it’s stanzas

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Dialect

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A variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciations, often associated with a particular geographical region

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