English Poetry

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a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning b/c its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.

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allegory

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literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true

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irony

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a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true, as in the statement "He ate everything in the house"

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hyperbole

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runs through an entire work and determines the form or nature of that work. gossip is called a "wagging tongue"

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metaphor

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a term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes, Buzz,r attle, bang, and sizzle

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onomatopeoia

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a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together as in "sweet sorrow" or "original copy"

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oxymoron

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statement that intially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense. "Death, thou shalt die"

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paradox

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a form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things

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personification

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an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. apostrophe often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud

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apostrophe

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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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simile

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kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, as when a gossip is called a "wagging tongue"

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synecdoche

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places at leat one of the rhymed words within the line, as in "Dividing and gliding and sliding"

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end rhyme

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rhyming of single-syllable words, such as grade or shade

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masculine rhyme

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consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables, such as butter, blutter, gratitude, attitude

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feminine rhyme

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share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing sounds taht follow the vowel

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exact rhyme

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repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable: descending dew drops; "luscious lemons"

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alliteration

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repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words taht do not end the same, for example "asleep under a tree"

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assonance

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a common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds: home, same; worth, breath.

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consonance

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one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed

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iambic foot

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one stressed syllable followed by an an unstressed

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trochaic

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two unstressed, one stressed

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anapestic

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one stressed, two unstressed

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dactylic

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a foot consisting of two stressed syllables

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spondee

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distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter (like that which is used in Shakespearean plays).

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blank verse

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distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter (like that which is used in Shakespearean plays).

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blank verse

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is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using a strict rhyme scheme, but still recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.

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free verse

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a term used for lines composed in a measured rhymical pattern, which are often, but not necessarily, rhymed

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verse

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play on words that relies on a word's having more than 1 meaning or soundingl ike other words

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pun

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elaborate and fanciful metaphor

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conceit

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words made from letters of other words

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anagrams

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usually a brief poem taht expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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lyric