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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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| A figure of speech in which something abstract or someone absent or dead is addressed or something nonhuman is referred to as if it were living. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds. |
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| A poem or song narrative. |
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| Unrhyming poem, usually in iambic pentameter. |
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| A break or pause in a line of poem. |
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| An elaborate metaphor usually extended through a poem. |
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| The abstract, emotional or suggested meaning of a word. |
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| Repetition of similar consonant sounds. |
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| In poetry, the image of description the author refers back to to keep in the reader's mind; similar to dominant impression in writing. |
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| Two consecutive lines in a poem that either rhyme or have the same meter. |
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| The dictionary definition of a word, its literal, precise, or concrete meaning. |
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| A writer's or speaker's choice of words. |
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| Poem or speech in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener. |
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| literature or speech in honor of someone who has died. |
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| A work of literature on a national or international scale usually written in elevated or dignified language. |
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| An aphorism in verse, usually a couplet. |
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| Pleasing to the ear; opposite is cacophony. |
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| Imaginative language use characterized by figures of speech such as similes and metaphors; saying one thing but meaning another. |
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| Distinct forms of figurative language. |
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| A unit of meter consisting of an accented and unaccented syllable. |
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| Unstressed first syllable, stressed second syllable. |
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| Stressed first syllable, unstressed second. |
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| Unstressed first two syllables, stressed third. |
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| Stressed first syllable, unstressed second and third. |
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| Stressed first and second syllable. |
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| Verse without rhyme or regular meter or regular line length. |
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| Japanese unrhymed poem of three lines. |
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| Exaggeration often to a comic effect. |
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| A line of poetry with five iambic feet, each containing one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. |
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| Descriptive and figurative language which creates word pictures for the reader. |
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| A fictional presentation of unspoken thoughts. |
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| To put side by side; often when two images or ideas are put side by side which have no apparent or only an implied connection. |
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| A precise and exact use of language, often with concrete diction. |
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| A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "as" or "like." |
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| A regularly occurring sound pattern in poetry. |
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| A figure of speech, a form of metaphor, in which a word is used to apply to something associated with it. |
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| A long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme that may have a traditional stanza structure. |
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| Use of words that imitate sounds. |
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| Exaggeration (hyperbole) to emphasize a point. |
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| Contradictory terms are combined. A two word paradox. |
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| A seemingly illogical statement in a literal sense that is nevertheless true or logical in a figurative sense. |
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| A literary work that idealizes country and rural life. |
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| The giving of human attributes to things not human. |
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| A composition that employs a principle of meter, written in lines and stanzas; verse is another term for poetry. |
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| A composition in lines and stanzas usually employing a principle of meter designed to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience. |
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| A play on words often using irony or ambiguity. |
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| A passage that is repeated at various points in a poem or song. |
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| A technique in poetry and prose in which elements are purposely repeated, usually for emphasis of a theme or thesis or to create a dramatic effect. |
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| Duplication of sounds usually at the end (end rhyme) of a line of verse. |
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| Rhyme falls on the last syllable in the words. |
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| Rhyme falls on the penultimate (next to last) syllable. |
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| Rhyming of words within one line of poetry. |
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| The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza indicated by alphabet letters. |
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| The modulation of weak and strong (or stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech, poetry or prose. |
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| A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." |
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| Poetry or verse; usually written for musical purposes. |
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| A fourteen-line lyric focused on a single theme with a set rhyme scheme. They may have variations, but they are usually written in iambic pentameter. |
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| The speaker is the voice of a poem. The speaker is often the poet, but the speaker may also be a fictional character or even and inanimate object or another type of nonhuman entity. Interpretation of the poem usually depends on the recognition of characteristics of the speaker. |
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| A group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit. The often function just like paragraphs in prose. Each one states and develops a single main idea. |
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| Something that represents something else by association, resemblance or convention. |
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| Using one thing to represent another. Attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events or relationships. |
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| A more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or vice versa (a part represents the whole or vice versa). |
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| The way words are put together to form phrases and sentences. |
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| An underlying truth or pattern of meaning in a literary work. |
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| A writer's attitude towards their subjects or audience. Point of view, narrative style, diction and even syntax help determine the tone or personality of the author. |
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| Statement that is an intentional underestimate, makes an important subject seem unimportant, opposite of hyperbole. |
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| Writing arranged according to a metrical pattern (or breath pattern as in free verse); poetry. |
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| The attitude portrayed to the reader by certain words or phrases the author writes. |
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| A playful, or fanciful form of poetry or diction. |
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