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Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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Assonance: a type of alliteration in which repeated vowel sounds are in a line or lines of poetry
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Blank Verse: A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
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Connotation: refers to the implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition
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Couplet: A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
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Denotation: The dictionary definition of a word
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Diction: a writer's or speaker's choice of words
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Enjambment: a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next
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Figurative Language: Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
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Free Verse: poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
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Hyperbole: a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor
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Imagery: A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea
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Meter: The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
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Metonymy: substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it
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Octave: eight line stanza
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Onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they describe
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Personification: giving inanimate objects human characteristics
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Quatrain: a four line stanza
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Rhythm: The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse
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Sestet: A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet.
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Sonnet: 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
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Stanza: A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another.
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Symbol: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself
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Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole
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Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.