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Accent: The emphasis, or stress, given a syllable in pronunciation; can also be used to emphasize a particular word in a sentence
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Allegory: A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific or abstract ideas
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Alliteration: The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable
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Allusion: A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
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Anagram: A word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase
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Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same
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Ballad: Traditionally a song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down; Typically dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives
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Cacophony: Language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce
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Caesura: A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line
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Cliche: An idea or expression that has become tired and trite from overuse, its freshness and clarity having worn off
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Colloquial: Refers to a type of informal diction that reflects casual, conversational language and often includes slang expressions
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Connotation: Associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word, which derive from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it
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Couplet: The two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter
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Denotation: The dictionary meaning of a word
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Diction: Awriters choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning
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Didactic Poetry: Poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson
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Doggerel: A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed
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Elegy: A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation
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Enjambment: When one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning
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Epigram: A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point
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Euphony: Refers to a language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear
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Figures of Speech: Ways of using language that deviate from the literal, denotative meanings of words in order to suggest additional meanings or effects
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Fixed Form: A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas
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Foot: The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured, usually consisting of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables
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Found Poem: An unintentional poem discovered in a nonpoetic context, such as a conversation, news story, or advertisement; serve as reminders that everyday language often contains what can be considered poetry
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Free Verse: Refers to poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
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Genre: A French word meaning kind or type
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Hyperbole: A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true
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Image: A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions
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Irony: A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true
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Limerick: A light, humorous style of fixed form poetry; form consists of 5 lines with the rhyme scheme aabba
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Lyric: A type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker
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Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as
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Meter: A rhythmic pattern of stresses recurring in a poem
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Narrator: The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author's voice
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Octave: A poetic stanza of eight lines , usually forming one part of a sonnet
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Ode: A relatively lenghty lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style; characterized by a serious topic
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Onomatopoeia: A term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes
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Open Form: Sometimes called free verse, it does not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
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Paradox: A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
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Personification: A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things
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Picture Poem (Concrete): A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page
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Point of View (Types): Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told
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Pun: A play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
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Quatrain: A four-line stanza
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Rhyme (Types): The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines (end, masculine, feminine, exact, near, off, slant, approximate)
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Sestet: A stanza consisting of exactly six lines
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Sestina: A type of fixed form poetry consiting of 36 lines of any length divided into 6 sestets and a 3-line concluding stanza called an envoy, the 6 words at tje end of the first sestet's lines must also appear at the ends of the other 5 sestets in varying order and in the envoy
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Simile: A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems
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Sonnet: A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter
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Stanza: Refers to a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme
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Stress: The emphasis, or accent, given a syllable in pronunciation
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Symbol: A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance
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Syntax: The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences
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Tercet: A three-line stanza
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Theme: The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work; provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements or a work are organized
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Tone: The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style
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Triplet: A tercet in which all three lines rhyme
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Understatement: The opposite of hyperbole; refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended; usually has an ironic effect
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Verse: A generic term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed
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Villanelle: A type of fixed form poetry consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas: 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain; the first and third lines of the initial tercet rhyme and are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa)
