English

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The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.

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Alliteration

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A reference to a historical event, to biblical, mythological, or literary characters and incidents with which the reader is assumed to be familiar with.

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Allusion

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The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds.

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Assonance

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A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.

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Ballad

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Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Blank verse

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A Latin expression that means "seize the day."

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Carpe Diem

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The intentional and imaginative use of words and comparisons that are not literal, but that create original, vivid, and often unexpected images and associations.

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Figurative Language

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A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.

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Hyperbole

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An image is an expression or recreation through language of any experience perceived through the senses.

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Image

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In general, a tone of figure of speech in which there is a discrepancy.

Example: A bankrobber robs a police station

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Irony

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A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet

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Lyric

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A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another. These comparisons don't use like or as.

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Metaphor

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The use of words whose sounds reflects their sense or meaning.

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech in which two sharply contrasting terms are paired for emphasis or ironic effect.

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Oxymoron

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A form of metaphor, or simile in which nonhuman things- objects, plants, animal, forces of nature, abstract ideas are given human qualities.

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as"

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Simile

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Anything that stands for something else.

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Symbol

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The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive, sentences, or lines.

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Anaphora

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Discordant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllables, sometimes inadvertent, but often deliberately used in poetry for effect, as in the opening of Fences

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Cacophony

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Harmony or beauty of sound that provides a pleasing effect to the ear

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Euphony

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In poetry, the harmonious use of language relative to the variation of stress and pitch

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Modulation

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Sound suggestiveness; the association of particular word-sound with common areas of meaning so that other words of similar sounds come to be associated with those meaning.

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Phonetic Symbolism