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Alliteration

The repetition of initial consonant sounds



Allusion

Reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

Apostrophe

A direct address to an absent person or personified quality, object or idea

Assonance

The repetition of vowels sounds

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllable containing dissimilar vowel sounds

Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration

Imagery

The descriptive language used in poety to re-create sensory experinces

Metaphor

A direct comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them.

Mood

How the Readers feel through reading

Motif

Repeating Objects/ theme

onomatopoeia

the use of words which imitate sound

Oxymoron

Figure of speech that fuses to contradictory or opposing ideas

Personification

A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abillities

Repetition

the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

Rhyme

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

Rhyme scheme

the sequence in which the rhyme occurs.

Scansion

The process of analyzing the metrical patter of a poem

Stanza

a group of lines in a poem seen as a unit

Symbol

Anything that stands for or represents something els

synecdoche

Figures of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole

Simile

A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like" or "as" or "than"

Theme

central idea, concern, purpose

Tone

The feeling that the writer/ author tries to conveyed the reader.