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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonant sounds within a line of poetry |
His secret success came surely as dark footed night |
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Synecdoche |
Figure of speech in which part of a thing represents a whole |
"Boots on the ground" "Give me a hand" |
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Allusion |
Reference to another piece of literature or historical event |
Bible |
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Metaphor |
Direct comparison between two unlike things |
My boyfriend is a dog |
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Simile |
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
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Figurative Language |
Language that's not meant to be taken literally |
Metaphor, simile, hyperbole |
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Apostrophe |
Figure of speech in which an inanimate object or a person who isn't present is directly addressed |
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are |
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Assonance |
When two or more words close to one another represent the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds |
Men sell the wedding bells |
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Caesure |
A strong pause in the middle of a line in poetry. Usually represented by a break in the line, or in modern poetry it can be represented with punctuation |
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Elegy |
Mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead |
Walt Whitman- "O Captain, my Captain" |
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Inversion |
The practice of changing the conventional order of words. |
Over the mountain an through the woods, to grandmother's house we go |
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Imagism |
Twentieth century movement in literature that favored precision of imagery and clear sharp language |
A station in the metro |
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Paradox |
It is a statement that appears to be self contradictory or silly but |
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Couplet |
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem |
"The time is out of joint, O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!" |
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Consonance |
Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonant within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession. Unlike alteration, consonance can occur at the beginning, middle, or end of words. |
Pitter, Patter |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. |
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Blank Verse |
Un-Rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter |
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Stanza |
A collection of lines in a poem. Similar to a paragraph in prose. |
Couplet -2 Tercet-3 Quatrain-4 Quintrain-5 Sestet-6 |
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Conceit |
Extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage |
Romeo and Juliet "Though counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind..." |
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Rhythm |
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. |
Iamb (unstressed/stressed) Trochee (stressed/unstressed) Spondee (stressed/stressed) Anapest (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) Dactyl (stressed/unstressed/unstressed) |
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Meter |
Number of feet within a line |
Monometer-1 Dimeter-2 Trimeter-3 Tetrameter-4 Pentameter-5 Hectameter-6 Heptameter-7 Octameter-8 |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to non-human objects |
The sun smiled brightly upon them |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words that sound like the sounds they represent. |
Buzz, hiss, whoosh |
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Irony |
A difference between appearance and the reality; when the opposite of what is expected occurs |
Verbal Situational Dramatic |
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Motif |
Recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme. |
The color green might be a motif to help develop the theme of jealousy |
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Scansion |
Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting syllables. |
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Juxtaposition |
Two or new ideas, places, characters and their actions are places side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts |
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