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| prose restatement of the central idea of a poem in personal language |
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| voice used by the author in the poem |
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| term used for lines compose |
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| brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker |
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| a long poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and/or important events |
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| putting two things side by side to compare them |
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| deliberate understatement |
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| allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation |
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| the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns |
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| the writers attituted toward a subject |
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| type of poetry dealing with love "seize the day." |
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| comparing two things using like, as, than, appears, or seems |
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| does not explicitly identify the object |
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| part or all of the poem consists of a series related metaphors and similes |
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| a play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word. |
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| figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole |
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| something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it |
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| human characteristics to non-human things |
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| address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something that is non-human. |
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| statement that initally appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense |
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| condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together |
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| something that represents something else |
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| narration or description usuually restricted to a single meaning |
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| difference between appearence and what is actually true |
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| most direct way in which the sound of a word suggests its meaning |
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| repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words |
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| repition of the same vowel sound |
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| rhyme in which the spellings are similar but the pronuciations are not |
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| single syllble words that rhyme (glade, shade) |
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| rhyme in which one stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables (butter, clutter) |
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| rhyme in which sounds are almost alike but not exactly |
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| type of near rhyme where an idential consonant sound preceded by a different vowel ( home, same) |
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| recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds |
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| poem with a serious topic and formal tone |
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| lyric poem written to comemorate someone who is dead |
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