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| voice that talks to the reader |
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| system by which each line is assigned a letter with its corrdinating rhyming line(s) |
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| a word that's sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| repetition of sounds in words that are close together |
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| repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word (not just at the beginning of the word) |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words |
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| repetition of accented vowel sounds |
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| end of the lines have rhyming words |
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| rhyme is between words within one line of poetry |
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| identical sounds (dead/red) |
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| sounds that are close but not identical (down/then) |
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| musical quality in language that is produced by repetition and meter |
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| pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
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| accented or long syllable |
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| unaccented or short syllable |
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| unit of measurement; the way we measure poetry |
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| a line of ten syllables using the pattern of unstressed/stressed |
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| unrhymed verse that is usually iambic pentameter |
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| verse free of rhyme and meter |
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| a non-human object or idea is given human qualities |
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| a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate |
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| comparision between two unlike things without using connective words, such as like or as |
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| metaphor that is directly stated; both comparison words are clearly named |
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| metaphor in which a comparison is suggested, but never actually stated |
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| a metaphor that stretches out over an entire poem or through several lines |
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| comparison between two unlike things by using connective words such as like, as, than, or resembles |
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| a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
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| a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It my be for serious or comedic effect. |
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| the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description |
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| the use of an object which respresents not only itself but also stands for something else or has deeper meaning |
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