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Terza Rima
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Rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking 3-line rhyme scheme. Example: "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost
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Eye Rhyme or Sight Rhyme
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A rhyme in which 2 words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. Example: "laughter" and "slaughter"
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Villanelle
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A 19-line poetic form consisting of 5 tercets followed by a quatrain, 2 refrains, and 2 repeating rhymes. Example: "Lonely Hearts" by Wendy Cope p.766
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Enjambment
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It is incomplete syntax at the end of a line, and the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation. Example: "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot
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Anaphora
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The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. Example: The Bible
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Caesura
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A strong pause within a line, often alongside enjambment. Example: "My Last Dutchess" by William Blake p.888
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Epistrophe
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The repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences. Example: "The Rebel" ny D.J. Enright
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Anastrophe
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A rhetorical term for the inversion of conventional word order. Example: "Powerful you have become, the Dark Side I sense in you." - Yoda, "Star Wars"
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Chiasmus
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The reversing of the order of words in the second of 2 parallel phrases. Example; "One should eat to live, not live to eat." - Cicero
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Euphony
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A pleasing or sweet sound... the acoustic effect produced by words formed or combined to please the ear. Example: "Come down, O Maid" by Tennyson p.862
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Cacophony
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A harsh discordance of sound. Example: "I detest war because cause of war is always trivial."
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Synecdoche
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A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. Example: "Lycidas" by John Milton p.286
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Antonomasia
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A rhetorical term for the substitution of a title, epitaph, or a descriptive phrase for a proper name to designate a member of a group or class. Example: Piggy from "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Synesthesia
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Refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense at a time. Example: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Litote
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A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives. Example: "A million dollars is not a little amount."
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else which it is closely associated. Example: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend my your ears." - Julius Caesar
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Parallelism
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The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Example: "Like father, like son."
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