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| the repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words |
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| a reference to another work of literature |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together |
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| a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than |
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| an imaginative comparison between two unlike things; one thing is said to be another thing. (no like or as) |
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| a metaphor that is extended or developed |
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| a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings or thoughts |
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| poetry without a regular meter or rhyme |
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| an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning |
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| a repeated sound, word, phrase, or group of lines |
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| the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem |
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| rhymes at the ends of lines |
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| to indicate the rhyme scheme of a poem |
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| a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
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| a person, place, or thing that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself |
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