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Alliteration: the repetition of (inital) consonant sounds
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Anaphora: the repetition of the same phrase, word, or clause
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Apostrophe: direct address to a figure of abstract quality
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Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Cacophony: sound combinations hard and strident to the ear
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Caesura: a pause in the regular rhythm and meter of a line
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Conceit: an extended and exaggerated comparison popularized by 17th century poets of which John Donne is most famous
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Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds among words (usually at the end)
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end-stopped lines: lines ending with punctuation vs...
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Enjambed lines: lines ending with no punctuation with the implicit understand that they continue to the next line without stopping
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Euphony: sound combinations pleasing to the ear
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Juxtapose / Juxtaposition: place two unlike/opposite things together to heighten contrast
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Meter: a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that repeats
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Onomatopoeia: the word is the sound, the sound is the word
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Oxymoron: two contradictory terms are placed side by side
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Paradox: language contradicts itself; heightens tension
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Pun: a double entendre; play on word sound
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Refrain: repetition of a line
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Tenor: the object being described in a metaphor
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Vehicle: the word/phrase used to describe