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alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds
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antagonist: character against the protagonist
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assonance: repetition of vowel sounds
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blank verse: unrhymed poetry
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cadence: rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds
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cliché: a trite phrase that has become overused
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dramatic monologue: where one person speaks to address an audience or a person
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dynamic: a character whos personality or opinions change throughout the passage
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elegiac poetry: a complaint or lamentation
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end-stopped poetry: where each line has a stop after it
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enjambment: poetry with no stops at the ends of lines
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epic poetry: poem celebrating the deeds of a hero; idolizing someone
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euphony: pleasing to the ear
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free verse: poem or verse that does not follow a pettern
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hyperbole: exaggeration of something; not to be taken literally
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idiom: expression in one language that cannot be directly translated to another
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imagery: mental pictures that readers experience in a passage of literature
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juxtaposition: the placement of two things together
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lyric poetry: song-like poetry, usually with soft transitions between lines and stanzas
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metaphor: figure of speech applied to something that doesn't directly relate
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meter: arrangement of words regularly placed in a pattern of equal time
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motif: reoccurring theme
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narrative poetry: a poem (usually told in third person) that tells a story
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onomatopoeia: a word formed to imitate a sound
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oxymoron: contradictory terms, like awfully pretty
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personification: giving human-like characteristics to an inanimate object
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protagonist: a main character on whom the author focuses most of his attention
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rhyme scheme: pattern of rhymes in a poem
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simile: using like or as to compare things
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sonnet: 14 lines of iambic pentameter usually confessing the love towards something
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stanza: form of paragraphs within a poem
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syntax: a system of orderly arrangement
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tone: the means of creating a relationship or conveying attitude or mood
