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| Repetition of initial consonant sound. |
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| Directly addressing an abstract quality or nonexistent person as though it were present. |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds. |
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| A story told in verse and usually meant to be sung. |
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| Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| Two successive rhyming lines of poetry. |
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| An extended narrative poem, told in an elevated style and about a heroic theme. |
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| Variations from the normal order, structure, or meaning of words for effect. |
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| Devices of figurative language. |
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| A unit of rhythm within a line of poetry. |
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| A poem without structured form or rhyme scheme. |
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| A pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines. |
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| A deliberate exaggeration for emphasis. |
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| A line of verse made up of five feet, each containing one unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| A difference between what the reader senses between the words that are spoken and what is true. |
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| A short poem expressing the internal thoughts, emotional thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. |
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| A direct comparison by saying that one thing is something else. |
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| A closely related object is used to represent another. |
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| The pattern of stressed syllables which occurs at regular intervals and makes up the rhythm of verse. |
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| A poem written in the elevated style of an epic, but which deals with a trivial subject. |
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| The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet. |
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| The use of words whose sounds reinforce their meaning. |
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| Two apparently contradictory words which together make sense. |
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| A statement that appears contradictory, but upon closer inspection reveals some truth. |
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| Giving human qualities to things or ideas. |
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| A question not intending an answer. |
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| The repetition of a regular or similar sound. |
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| The pattern of a rhyme in a piece of poetry. |
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| The sense of movement resulting from patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. |
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| A type of writing that ridicules with the purpose of inspiring change. |
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| A comparison using "like" or "as". |
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| A 14 line lyric poem, written in iambic pentameter. |
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| A part of something represents the whole. |
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| The attitude the poet takes towards his audience. |
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| When something is deliberately said to be less than it is. |
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