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Alliteration

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the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words

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Allegory

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A form of extended metaphor in which the objects, persons, places and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings outside the narrative itself

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Allusion

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a figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object.

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Anachronism

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assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence

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Analogy

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A comparison of two things that are alike in certain aspects. Often used to use something familiar to explain the unfamiliar

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Antithesis

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A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. It is the balancing of one term against another

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Archetype

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an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore

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Asyndeton

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omission of connecting words in a list

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Anaphora

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the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines

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Apostrophe

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the speaker addresses a dead (or absent) person or an abstraction or inanimate object – it provides the speaker an opportunity to think aloud

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Verse

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metrical language (writing using a meter); the opposite of prose.

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Meter

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the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

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Prose

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the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure; not poetry

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Structure

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The internal organization of a poems content

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Form

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The external pattern or shape of the poem, describable without reference to its content

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed, but otherwise regular verse (IE it has a meter, but no rhyme)

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Free verse

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nonmetrical poetry that does not follow established norms

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Characterization

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The creation of imaginary persons by an author so that they seem
lifelike

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Direct Characterization

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the writer tells the reader what a character is like

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Indirect Characterization

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the writer shows the reader what a character is like through his/her dialogue and/or actions or through other characters

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Colloquialism

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An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing

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Satire

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mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed, most often introduced by words such as like, as, compare, liken, resemble, etc

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Understatement

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to represent with restraint; to say less than is meant

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Run-on line (Enjambment)
a line that has no natural speech pause at its end, allow the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line
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Stanza
A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout the poem
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Refrain
A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form
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Rhyme
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words
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End Rhyme
Rhymes that occur at the ends of the lines
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Internal Rhyme
A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur(s) within the line
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Rhyme scheme
a fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas
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Couplet
Two successive lines (of poetry), usually of the same meter, linked by Rhyme
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End-stopped line
A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation
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Epigram
a pithy saying
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Epigraph
a quotation or motto placed at the beginning of a book, chapter, or poem
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Epithet
A word that points out a characteristic of a person or thing that is used like a nickname
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Dialect
a variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciations, often associated with a particular geographical region
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Dramatic Irony
the audience knows more about a character’s situation than the character does
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Euphemism
A device in which indirectness replaces the directness of a statement, usually in an effort to avoid offensiveness
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Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that continues over several lines or throughout an entire work
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Foil
a character who, through contrast, underscores the characteristics of another.
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Genre
a category of literary composition
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Idiom
Use of words peculiar to a given language; an expression that cannot be translated literally
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Imagery
The technique by which the author creates images within a literary work
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Metaphor
A type of analogy in which identifies one object with another and ascribes to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second.
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Motif
Recurrent images, words objects, phrases, actions, etc. that tend to unify a work of literature
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Onomatopoeia
Words that by their sounds suggest their meaning
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Oxymoron
A self-contradictory combination of words
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Paradox
a statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may be actually well-founded or true
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Personification
The representing of non-human things or ideas as having human personalities, intelligence, emotions, or physical feature
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Polysyndeton(pol-ee-sin-di-ton)
the repeated use of conjunctions to link together a succession of words, clauses, or sentences
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Lyric Poetry
A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating a single unified effect. Has numerous subclassifications.
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Ode
A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose and dealing with one theme.
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English (Shakespearian) Sonnet
rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. It’s content usually parallels the rhyme scheme, with three quatrains and a concluding couplet a shift just before the couplet, but if structured like an itialian sonnet with an octave and a sestet, the shift occurs after the 8th line
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Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet
A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes. A shift occurs after the 8th line.
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Sonnet
A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to one of two main types—the Italian or English

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