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| a story told in verse form; a long narrative poem |
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| a brief personal poem that is especially musical and filled with emotion; includes sonnets, odes, and elegies |
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| a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains followed by a couplet; the most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg) |
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| a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature |
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| the literary dictionary definition of a word |
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| all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
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| two dissimilar things are compared using words such as "like," "as," "than," or "resembles" |
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| two dissimilar things are compared WITHOUT using words such as "like," "as," "than," or "resembles" |
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| directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" |
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| suggests a comparison WITHOUT using "is" |
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| a metaphor that is developed over several lines or a whole poem |
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| a metaphor that has become so overused that we no longer realize that it's a figure of speech -- we simply skip over the metaphorical connection it makes. cliche |
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| the inconsistent mixture of two or more metaphors; a common problem in bad writing, and often unintentionally funny |
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| the word for a part of something is used to mean the whole |
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| substituting one closely related idea for another |
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| giving human or animate qualities to nonhuman or inanimate things |
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| addressing something nonhuman as if it were human |
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| something concrete used to represent something abstract |
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| a reference to a person, place, or thing from previous literature, usually the Bible, Shakespeare, or mythology |
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| exaggeration for the sake of effect, for emphasis, not to be taken literally; overstatement |
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| a special form of understatement that affirms something by negating the opposite |
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| saying the opposite of what is true |
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| balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect |
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| an apparent contradiction, which proves, upon closer examination, to be true; a two-word paradox |
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| the repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more words in a line of verse |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds that are NOT at the beginning of words in a line of verse |
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| the similarity or repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words with different consonant sounds |
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| the use of words that imitate the sounds they define |
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| repeating a word or phrase within a poem because it is pleasing to the ear, emphasizes an idea, and/or gives the poem structure |
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| the repetition of the structure of 2 or more lines in a poem |
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| the listing of words, images, or attributes |
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| the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at definite intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
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| consists of a verse with end rhyme and regular meter |
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| consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| consists of lines of poetry that do not have a regular rhythm and do not rhyme regularly |
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| a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry" |
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| the similarity of sound at the ends of 2 or more words |
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| occurs between words found at the ends of two or more lines in a poem |
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| between words within a single line of poetry |
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| exact rhyme; involves sounds that are exactly the same |
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| approximate or slant or off rhyme; involves words that sound similar, but are not exactly the same |
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| depends on spelling rather than sound; words that look like they should rhyme, but do not |
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| the pattern or sequence on which end rhyme occurs throughout a poem |
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| the patterned of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| a unit of meter, usually containing one stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables |
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| the process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain |
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| a 2-syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable; the most common foot in the English language |
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| a 2-syllable foot with the stress on the first syllable |
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| 2 stressed syllables used rarely for emphasis |
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| 2 unstressed syllables, rare and found in between other types of feet |
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| three syllables with the stress on the last syllable |
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| three syllables with the stress on the first syllable |
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| the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line onto the next line or stanza (no end puncuation) |
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| lines in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end |
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| a puase within a line of verse, usually in the middle |
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| a puase within a line of verse, usually in the middle |
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