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| he repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words. |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two dissimilar things using comparative words such as “like,” “as,” or “resembles” |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two dissimilar things without using a comparative word |
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metaphors that do not directly state that one
thing is another |
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| the use of two or more metaphors in one expression “To hold the fort, he’d have to shake a leg.” |
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| the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. |
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| rhyme that occurs within one line |
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| a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is give human characteristics. |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
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| a harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord |
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| something that is used to stand for itself and for something more than itself as well. |
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| words or phrases that use description to create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind. These words can appeal to all of our senses. Notice this excerpt that appeals to our sight, sound, and touch. |
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| is a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms. |
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| the analysis of verse in terms of meter |
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| The regular pattern of rhythm-that is, of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse. |
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| usually consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. |
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| one of the basic meters in English. Verse in iambic pentameter has five metrical feet in it, most of which are iambic. |
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| fourteen line poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. |
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onsists of three four-line units called quatrains and then ends with a couplet. The rhyme scheme is
abab, cdcd, efef, gg. |
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consists of an octave (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines). The rhyme scheme is
abba, abba, cde, cde. |
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