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| a reference to a statement, person,place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics , or some other field of knowledge |
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| the repition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another |
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| a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. |
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| the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
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| a song or songlike poem, often form the oral tradition that tells a story. |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| all the meanins, associations, or emothions that a word suggests. |
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| the repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds |
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| two consecutive line of poetry that rhyme |
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| a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter |
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| the literal, dictionary definition of a word |
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| a writer's or speakers choice of words |
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| a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost |
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| a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-thanlife hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
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| a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse. |
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| poetry that has no regular meter or ryhme scheme |
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| a brief, unrhymed, three-line poem developed in Japan in the 1600s |
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| a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express a strong sentiment or create a comic effect |
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| a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| a line of poetry made up of five iambs |
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| form; appearance; semblance |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a contrast between expectations and reality- between what is said and what is meant |
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| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
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| poetry that focuses on expressing private emotions or thoughts |
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| states that one thing is another |
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| a metaphor that is developed over several lines writing or even through an entire poem or paragraph |
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| metaphor that compares two things without being obvious |
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| a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| any work of literature, written or oral, that tells a story |
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| an eight-line stanza or poem or the first eight lines of an italian, or petrarchan sonnet |
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| a complex, generally lengthy lyric poem on a serious subject |
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| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. |
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| a kind of literature that depicts rustic life in idealized terms |
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| a four-line stanza or poem, or a group of four lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
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| a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
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| half rhymes, slant rhymes or imperfect rhymes |
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| when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another |
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| occur at the end of lines |
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| consonance on the final consonants of the words involved |
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| often using assonance or consonance only |
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| when vowel sounds rhyme, but the words do not |
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| the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences |
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| the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
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| the use of run-on lines to complete a thought from one line of verse to the next |
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| a six-line stanza or poem or the last six lines of an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet. |
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| a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. |
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| a figure of speech that make comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
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| a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several traditional rhyme schemes |
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| SHAKESPEREAN OR ENGLISH SONNET |
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| The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg |
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| PETRARCHAN OR ITALIAN SONNET |
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| a verse form that typically refers to a concept of unattainable love |
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| a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. |
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| a group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit |
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| the unique manner in which writers use language to express their ideas |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| a triplet, or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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| the central idea or insight of a work of literature |
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| the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like. |
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| the a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
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| a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter |
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