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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which an im;licit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike (my car is a lemon)
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free verse
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nonmetrical verse; poetry arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed pattern or expectation
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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foot
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the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. a foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables.
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iamb
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a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (re-hearse)
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trochee
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a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (af-ter)
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anapest
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a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed y one accented syllable (un-der-stand)
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dactyl
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a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (mer-ri-ly)
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spondee
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a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (true-blue)
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sonnet
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a fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to two types:
Italian: abbaabba cdcdcd English: ababcdcdefefgg |
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allegory
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a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one
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allusion
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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
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imagery
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the representation through language of sense experience. (see, feel, taste, touch, smell)
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figure of speech
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broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly, a way of saying one thing and meaning another
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verbal irony
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a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which an im;licit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike (my car is a lemon)
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound (boom, click, plop)
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paradox
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a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements.
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hyperbole/ overstatement
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a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth (i am starved)
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understatement
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a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants.
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satire
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a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice
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personification
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a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, or object, or a concept.
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