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Parallelism |
Emphasizes the repetition of grammatical structures |
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Assonance |
Emphasizes the repetition of the same vowel sound in close proximity |
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Alliteration |
Emphasizes repetition of the same consonant sound in close proximity |
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Closed form |
Poetry written in specific and traditional patterns produced through rhyme, meter, line length, and line groupings |
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Open form |
Poems that avoid traditional structural patterns of such a strict patterns of rhymes are meter in favor of other methods of organizations |
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Enjabment |
a literary technique of employing run on lines. the line breaks doesn't signal the end of a thought or sentence this creates tension surprise emphasis or rhythm |
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Stanza |
A grouping of lines that off my space in the printed text similar to paragraphs |
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Verbal irony |
The gap between what said and what's intended usually happens through understatement hyperbole or sarcasm |
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Dramatic irony |
The readers know more than a character in the story and watches the character make a miss judgement or mistake based on lack of knowledge |
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Situational irony |
The gap between what's expected and what actually happens |
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Connotation |
The emotional Association a word contains |
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Hyperbole |
A literary technique deliberate exaggeration for emphasis |
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Imagery |
A literary technique in which the author creates a concrete representation this is a description that appeals to any of the five senses |
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Personification |
Giving human characteristics or something non human or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
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Metaphor |
A literary technique that describes an object situation or idea through it comparison with another object |
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Simile |
A literary technique that describes an object's situation or idea through comparison with another object usually using like as or then |