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alliteration: the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. "Peter Piper picked"
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allusion: a reference in a work of literature to a well-known historical event, person, or literature: "D'oh," Homer Simpson
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apostrophe: addressing an abstract quality, or a nonexistent person. "Oh Love, why are you so cruel?"
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assonance: the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "Acid acts"
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auditory imagery: words in a work that depict hearing: "birds chirp"
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blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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cacophony: a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves"
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caesura: a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse: "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
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consonance: the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words when it is not the initial letter. "The tide rises, the tide falls"
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couplet: a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same.
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diction: word choice conveys connotation: "juice" vs. "grease"
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elegy: a poem about death or another sad theme.
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end stopped: a line with a pause at the end.
"glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head."
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enjambment: the continuation of a line topic from one line of poetry to the next.
"I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew"
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extended metaphor: a comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem with out using like or as
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figurative language: writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language) such as metaphor, personification, and simile.
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foot: a unit of accented and unaccented syllables
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free verse: poetry which is not rhymed or written in a traditional meter but can still be rhythmical.
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gustatory imagery: words in a work that depict taste: "salty"
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hyperbole: an exaggeration
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internal rhyme: rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end: "Right after tonight is when I prepare"
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irony: when the opposite of what you would expect occurs: Fahrenheit 451
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metaphor: a comparison is expressed without "as," "like," or "than."
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meter: the repetition of a regular rhythm in a line of poetry.
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octave: an eight-line stanza
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olfactory imagery: words in a work that depict smell: "acrid"
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oxymoron: a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression: "palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss"
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parallelism: a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry
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personification: gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics: "the trees danced"
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pun: a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have diff. meanings: "soul/ sole"
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quatrain: a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes
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refrain: a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza
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rhyme: words that sound the same at the end or middle of a line of poetry
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scansion: a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line
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simile: comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than."
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slant rhyme: rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is a different pronunciation: "soul/all"
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sonnet: normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. It usually presents a dilemma and solution
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stanza: a grouping of lines
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style: the characteristic manner of expression of an author
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symbol: something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else: "dove"="peace"
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syntax: The ordering of words into patterns or sentences. Always read your poem to the punctuation if there is any!!!
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tactile imagery: words in a work that depict touch: "sticky"
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theme: the main thought expressed by a work. In poetry, it is the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work
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tone: the attitude of the speaker towards their subject
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understatement: the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.
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visual imagery: words in a work that depict sight: "radiant"
