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| having the form and musical quality of a song |
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| 14-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter |
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| poem of elaborate/irregular form and expressive of emotion |
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| long poetic composition centered upon a hero |
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| a simple poem, usually pertaining to romance |
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| humorous, 5-line verse (aabba) |
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| particular style or manner |
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| unifying or dominant idea; topic |
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| poetic measure; arrangement of words in verses |
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| the pattern of rhymes used in a poem (ababbcc) |
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| Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words |
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| repetition of consonants, especially at the end of words |
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| two or more similar words in a word group |
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| use of imitative and naturally suggestive words (click, bing) |
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| meaningless mixture of sounds |
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| comparison of 2 unlike things (w/out explicit comparison such as like or as) |
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| an elaborate, fanciful metaphor |
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| giving a non-human thing human characteristics |
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| an address to someone/something not present or not existent |
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| a name for something replaced with another name |
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| a part is used for the whole or vice versa (12 hands on deck) |
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| an outcome of events different to what was expected |
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| representing things with symbols or having symbolic meaning |
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| figurative description that produces pictoral images |
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| a seemingly self-contradiction |
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| to opposite words put together (jumbo shrimp) |
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| reference to someone or something |
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