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dramatic irony
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occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
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situational irony
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occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens, or when what we expect to happen is in fact quite contradictory to what really does take place
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verbal irony
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a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different
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oxymoron
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combination of contradictory terms
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hyperbole
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grossly exaggerated statement
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understatment
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under stated
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double entendre
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intentional ambiguity, often sexual in nature
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pun
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a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
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rhyme
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repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them; in words that are close together in a poem
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhymes in a poem indicated by the use of a different letter of the alphabet for each rhyme
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alliteration
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repetition of the same onsonants sounds in words that are close together in a poem, or repetition of consonant sounds that are familiar
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rhythm
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musical quality in language produed by repetition; regular or irregular determined by counting up the syllables in line
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meter
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a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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onomatopoeia
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use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning
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stanza
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group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
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couplet
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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explicate
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detailed report (of poem)
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connotative
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all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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denotative
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dictionary meaning
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diction
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a writers/speakers choice of words
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theme
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central idea of a work of literature
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tone
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attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or a character
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syntax
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author's choice of grammar
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juxtaposition
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put two things next to each other for terms of comparison
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inversion
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reversal of the normal order of a sentence
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paradox
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seemingly self-contradictory statement that is in fact true
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persona
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speaker, voice that is talking to us in a poem
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metaphor
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figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles
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implied metaphor
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does not tell us directly the one thing is something but rather it uses words that suggest what the nature of the comparison is
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extended metaphor
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that is extended, or developed, over several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem; more than one metaphor on same subject
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simile
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figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using words like as, resembles, like or than
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symbol
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a person, a place, or a thing or an event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
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personification
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special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Allusion
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reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science or pop culture
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metonymy
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uses something closely related to that thing to represent the whole
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synecdoche
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use part of something to represent the whole
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imagery
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sense used to paint a picture
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apostrophe
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personification of something for the purpose of addressing it
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slant rhyme
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occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds
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repetition
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recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, stanzas in a speech or piece of writing; regular
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refrain
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a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines; organized, part of a real pattern
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