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| An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand |
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| an event, object, custom, person or thing that is out of its natural order of time (historical inaccuracy) |
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| a comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar |
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| a terse statement of a principal or truth; maxim (Ex: Life is unfair) |
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| a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction (Ex: "To Autumn") |
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| Any expression that has been used so often it has lost its freshness (Ex: The last straw) |
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| A riddle with a punning answer |
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| Any terse, witty, pointed saying. (Ex: She knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing) |
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| The substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful |
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| language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, personification, etc. |
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| Exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally. |
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| a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun (Ex: "candle of heaven" for sun) |
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| A figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatment. (Ex: I'd not be averse to a drink) |
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| the comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning. |
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| one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing so as to suggest some common qualities shared by the two |
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| a representative term is used for a larger idea (Ex: The pen is mightier than the sword) |
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| the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to (Ex: whack, fizz) |
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| A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression (Ex: wise fool) |
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| the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate ojects are referred to as if they were human. (Ex:The wind howled through the trees) |
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| a short saying that expresses some commonplace truth or bit of folk wisom (Ex: A penny saved is a penny earned) |
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| a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings |
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| a less direct metaphor, using like or as (Ex: He is like a pig) |
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| a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion (if....If...then....) |
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| the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another (Ex: He is wearing a loud shirt) |
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| figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole (Ex: all hands on deck) |
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| repition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence. (Ex: with malice towards none, with charity for all) |
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| a type of verbal irony in which something is purposly represented as being far less important than it actually is |
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| the repition of the same sounds in neighboring words. occurs at the beginning of words |
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| the repition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words (Ex: meet beet) |
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| harsh, clashing or dissonant sounds often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants |
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| a pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences (Ex: semicolon, dash, etc.) used to allow room for thought, emphasis |
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| repition of identical or similar consonants at the end or middle of words (Ex: paper cutter) |
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| harshess of sound and/or rhyme, either inadvertant or deliberate |
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| a line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause. Opposite of enjambment |
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| the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause (run-on line) |
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| a pleasing smoothness of sounds, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination |
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| metrical foot of three syllables, two unaccented followed by one accented (jubilee) |
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| the rising and falling rhythm of speech, especially that of the balanced phrases in free verse or in prose. Also the fall or rise in pitch at the end of a phrase of sentence |
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| metrical foot of three syllables, one accented followed by two unaccented (EX: temperate) |
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| the basic unit of rhythmic measurement ina line of poetry |
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| a metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables, an unaccented sylable followed by an accented (Ex: Nicole) |
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| an older word for meter. The term is also used to refer to any metrical unit such as a foot |
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| the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less reguarly in lines of verse |
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| a line of 5 feet. Iambic pentameter, normally 10 syllables, has had special status as the standard line in many poetry forms |
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| the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
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| Rhyme that comes at the end of a line of poetry |
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| Rhyme that comes within the line |
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| two-syllable rhyme. unstressed and calm |
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| meaning in the poem suffers because of the stilted nature of the rhyme |
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| one-syllable rhyme. stressed and forceful |
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| identical rhyme between two words (Ex: feature creature) |
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| inexact rhyme between two words |
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| rhyme based on spelling rather than sound (Ex: bough though) looks nice and sets things apart |
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| the patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose. Sound devices create rhythm |
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| analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the accented and unaccented syllables and dividing the lines into metrical feet |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, both accented (Ex: backpack) |
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| the emphasis placed on a word or syllable |
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| a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable. opposite of iamb (Ex: Katie) |
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