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allegory: A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface.
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alliteration: The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented symbols or important words.
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allusion: A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history.
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apostrophe: A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive.
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assonance: The repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words.
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attitude: Emotion and POV on the situation
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ballad: A fairly short narrative poem written in song like stanza form.
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blank verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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connotation: What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition.
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couplet: Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme.
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denotation: The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word.
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detail: articulate
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diction: Word choice, and order.
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didactic poetry: Poetry having as a primary purpose, to teach or preach.
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euphony: A smooth, pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds.
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figurative language: Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally.
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figures of speech: Metaphor, saying something is something it's not. Comparison, not literal.
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Foot: The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse.
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free verse: Non-metrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop.
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hyperbole: Exaggeration
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iambic pentameter: A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs.
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imagery: The representation through language of sense experience.
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irony: dramatic: A device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker.
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irony: situational: When there is a incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem anticipated or appropriate.
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irony: verbal: A figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said.
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Italian-Petrachan: A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any other arrangement of two schemes.
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language: style, dialect, education level
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Limerick: 5 lined poem.
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metaphor: A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unalike.
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meter: The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition
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metonymy: A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
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onomatopoeia: the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in the sound.
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organization: Structure of the literary work, grouping
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oxymoron: A compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other.
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paradox: situation statement: A statement or situation contradictory elements.
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pentameter: Metrical line containing five feet.
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personification: A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or concept.
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phrasing: Lyrical flow.
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pov: Ones own opinion.
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quatrain: A four line stanza, A four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.
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rhyme: The repetition of accentual vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in an importantly positioned.
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rhyme scheme: Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas.
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rhythm: Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound.
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romanticism: Revering the universe, caring for nature, celebrating life, strong emotion, rebellion against social conventions.
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satire: A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose for bringing about change.
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sentence structure: Sentence form.
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Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet rhyming abacdcdefegg.
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simile: Comparison, using like or as.
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Sonnet: A fixed for of fourteen lines normally in iambic pentameter. W/ rhyme scheme english/italian.
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structure: The internal organization of a poems content.
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symbol: A figure of speech in which something means more than it is.
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syntax: Technical word order, layout, grammar.
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terza rima: An interlocking rhyme scheme with the patter aba bcb cdc
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tetrameter: A metrical line containing four feet.
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theme: The central idea of the literary work.
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tone: The writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience or herself or himself, the emotional meaning of the work.
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verse: The opposite of prose.
