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| two unlike things compared using like or as |
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| two unlike things directly compared |
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| poems of high personal and emotional qualities |
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| poetry that has a great variety in form, usually a death theme |
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| a short elegy inscribed on a tombstone or monutment |
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| satrical-poking fun poem ending with a witticism |
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| 3 lined poem 575 syllables usually about nature |
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| giving human qualities to an object |
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| reffering metaphorically to persons, places, and things from other literature |
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| saying more than is true; exaggeration |
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| saying opposite of what is true |
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| repition of letter sounds |
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| words whose sounds suggest their meaning |
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| rhyme occuring at the end of two lines of verse |
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| similarity occuring between 2 or more words in the same line |
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| similarity exsisting between words |
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| recurrence of the same consonant sounds |
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| recurrence of vowel sounds that are followed by different consoant sounds |
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| substituting one word for another |
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| using contrasts for effect |
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| speaks to some abstract object |
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| authors personal thoughts and feelings |
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| imiation of form, subject, matter and mood of the popular ballad |
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| expressions in which words are used in a non-literal way |
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| popular form of lyric poetry 14 lines |
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| expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical term |
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long narrative
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| tells the deeds of heroes |
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| imitated elements and qualities of heroic epic |
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| ridicules trivial subject |
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| long tale of adventure-centrak fig-superhuman |
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| concise;impersonal; dramatic; refrain |
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