| Term | Definition |
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| Alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words |
| Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, place (real or fictious), or to a work of art |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonat sounds as in consonance |
| Caesura | a natural break or pause |
| Connotation | an implied meaning of a word (opposite of denotation) |
| Denotation | literal meaning of a word (opposite connotation) |
| Diction | an author's choice of words |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
| Imagery | a language that evokes one or all of the five senses |
| Irony | an implied discrepancy between what is said and waht is meant |
| Verbal Irony | when an author says one thing and means something else |
| Dramatic irony | when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know |
| Irony of Situation | a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as, as in a simile |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that are repeated regularly in a poem or song, usually at the end of each stanza |
| Rhyme (Scheme) | rhymed words at the ends of lines |
| Simile | the comparison of two unlike things using like or as (related to metaphor) |
| Stanza | a unified group of lines in poetry |
| Verse | a line of poetry |
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