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| repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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| reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
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| repetition of an opening word or phase in a series of lines |
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| figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, abstract quality, something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds in words of accented syllables or important words close together |
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| a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| what a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning |
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| repetition of final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
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| the basic definition or dictionary meaning |
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| rhymes that occur at the ends of lines |
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| a smooth, plesant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| extended figure (sustained figure) |
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| figure of speech (usually metaphor, simile, personitfication, or apostrophe) sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem |
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| a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved (ceiling-appealing) |
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| figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement to express strong emotion or create comic effect |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy |
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| a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (dance-pants, scald-recalled) |
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| figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unalike |
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| the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
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| igure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experiece; the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant |
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| the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound |
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| statement or situation containing apparetly contradictory or imcompatible elements |
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| figure of speech in human sttributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept |
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| a four-line stanza; a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme |
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| the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words |
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| any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanza |
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| alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
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| figure of speech in which an explicit comparison it made between two dissimilar things |
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| a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme |
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| a group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem |
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| something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings as well |
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| figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
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| presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation |
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| central idea or insight of a work of literature |
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| attitude a write takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work |
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