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Allusion

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Brief reference to something outside the text

Sonnet allusion to Petrarch and Laura

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds

Pied beauty line 9 swift, slow; sweet, sour

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Apostrophe

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Talking directly to someone

On her loving two equally “o Cupid”

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming

Dover beach for ex. Stand England

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Caesuras

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A break in the middle of the line
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is

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Carpe diem

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Seize the day

The flea and to his coy mistress

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Diction

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Choice of words

The flea suck and fuck in those times

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Connotation

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What the word could mean besides its literal meaning
On her loving two equally
His part

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Elegy

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Poem about death

For I could not stop for death

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Enjambment

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We real cool

Lines spill over

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Image,imagery

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Sensory detail

Chile pepper

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Irony

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Something other than what supposed to happens happens

Meila says ain’t

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Invocation

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Poem dressed directly to god

Batter my heart three pronged god

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Litotes

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Understatement

Then all smiling ceased in last duchess

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Metaphor

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Comparison

Hard rock returns baked in his face

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Metonymy

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A whole for a part
Head reason heart emotion
Head heart

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Paronomasia

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A joke exploiting different meanings of a word

Vacuum

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Personification

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Giving things human characteristics

Alzheimer’s roses and columbine slug it out for space

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Sonnet

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14 line poem Shakespeare how do I love thee

Batter my heart

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Symbol

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Something that means more than it actually does

Vacuum

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Synecdoche

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A part for a whole

Painting of duchess

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor

The leap

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