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| a highly music verse that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker on a particular topic |
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| tells a story, must rhyme, and is usually longer than other poems |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds designed to create pleasing musical effects |
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| The close repetition of similar vowels in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds |
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| the use of words that imitate sounds; used to create musical effects and to reinforce meaning |
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| use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur used to create suspense |
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| a feeling o growing curiosity or anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work; created by raising questions in the mind of the reader |
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| a verse that presents the speech of one or more characters |
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| the poems voice; identify a speaker |
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| the attitude the speaker take toward the poem's subject |
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| the apparent meaning of the word is the opposite of the intended meaning |
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| language that is not literal but represents one thing in terms of another |
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| a direct comparison between items that are unlike in most ways but similar in one respect |
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| compares two different items usually by equating them |
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| an object, action, or idea that stands for or represents something else |
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| a figure of speech in which an object or idea is represented as a person |
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