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| the voice that speaks the poem; it should not be confused with the poet. |
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| A comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| An implied comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as" |
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| A metaphor in which the whole is replaced by a part or the part by the whole |
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| A metaphor in which something is named that replaces something closely related to it. |
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| Giving human feelings or characteristics to inanimate objects |
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| An address to a person or thing not literally listening |
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| Suggestions or associations related to the word, often includes an emotional (positive or negative)response |
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| The dictionary definition of a word |
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| universal symbols that remain constant--A red rose represents love. |
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| The speaker's words mean more or less the opposite of what they seem to say. |
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| making light of a large matter |
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| the assertion of an apparent contradiction |
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| the arrangement of the parts, the organization of the entire poem |
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| stresses at regular intevals |
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| pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable repeated five times in a line of poetry |
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| A line ending with a stressed syllable |
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| A line ending with an extra unstressed syllable |
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| Concludes with a distinct syntactical pause |
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| A run-on line that has its sense carried over into the next line without syntactical pause |
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| Produced by meter, applied to larger units than feet |
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| the repetition of identical or similar stressed sound or sounds |
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| differing consonant sounds followed by identical stressed vowel sounds |
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| Rhymes in which only the final consonant sounds of the words are identical |
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| Sounds that do not in fact rhyme but look as though they would rhyme |
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| Final syllables that are stresseed and, after their differing initial consonant sounds, are identical in sound |
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| Feminine Rhyme (Double Rhyme) |
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| Stressed rhyming syllables followed by identical unstressed syllables |
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| End Rhyme (Terminal Rhyme) |
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| Rhyming words that occur at the ends of the lines |
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| A type of rhyme in which at least one of the rhyming words occurs within the line |
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| Repetition of initial sounds |
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| The repetition, in words of proximity, of identical vowel sounds preceded and followed by differing consonant sounds |
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| The repetition of identical consonant sounds and differing vowel sounds in words in proximity |
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| The use of words that imitate sounds |
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| A stanza of two lines, usually with end rhymes |
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| A three-line stanza, usually with one rhyme |
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| A four-line stanza, rhymed or unrhymed |
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| A fourteen-line poem, predominiately in iambic pentameter |
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| Italian (Petrarchan)Sonnet |
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| Rhyme scheme of abba abba cd cd cd. The first eight lines are the octave, the last six the sestet |
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| English (Shakespearean) Sonnet |
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| Rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Contains three quatrains and a couplet. |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| No fixed metrical pattern, usually unrhymed, no specific line length |
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