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Alliteration |
Repeated use of a constant, specially at beginning of stress words or syllables |
Soothing sweet shriek |
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Allusion |
A reference in a literary work today person, place, or thing in history, or another work of literature |
Noun |
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Analogy |
Relationship of similarity between two entities or a partial similarity on which the comparison is based |
The comparison usually serves to create a new idea |
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Anaphora |
One of the devices of repetition, in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines |
Repetition |
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Assonance |
Repetition of identical vowel sounds but not exclusively those of initial syllables |
Example: I'm hunched Over |
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Connotation |
The nuance of meaning in a word or image; associations and suggestions attached to a word or image outside of its strict definition |
Different from denotation |
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Consonance |
Repetition of constant sounds but not exclusively of those of initial syllables |
Not exclusively; initial |
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Denotation |
The actual definition of the word without Association/suggestion |
Without |
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Diction |
The choice of words, resulting in a certain level of language or tone |
Someone's personal dictionary |
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Hyperbole |
Overstatement or exaggeration |
I'm so hungry I could eat a cow |
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Image |
Expression in words of a sensory experience |
Visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory |
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Irony |
A discrepancy between the immediate, apparent meaning of the word/phrase/situation and tis underlying meaning |
It involves a double point of view |
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Metaphor |
A statement that one thing IS something else, which it actuallyis not, for purpose of making a comparison |
Soft Moons blow away in June |
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Meter |
The reoccurrence in a poem of a certain rhythmical pattern |
Pace |
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Metonymy |
A word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word. |
Sometimes chosen because it is a well-known characteristic of the word |
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Narrative |
A poem that tells a story |
The author would be a narrator |
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Onomatopoeia |
Words or groups of words in which the sound imitate the sense |
Buzzing of bees |
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Oxymoron |
A yoking together of terms that are literally contradictory/opposite |
Living versus death |
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Personification |
The practice of giving human characters to animals or objects |
The cruel sea |
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Pun |
Play on words |
Bazinga |
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Refrain |
Words, sounds, or phrases repeated regularly throughout a poem |
Kinda like a lyric |
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Rhyme |
A similarity in the ending sounds of words or lines of verse |
Train brain came |
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Simile |
Figure of speech which especially states a similarity between two normally unrelated things by using the words like as in sometimes than |
The dragonfly hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky |
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Stanza |
A separate group of lines in which the patterns is repeated throughout the poem. |
The term is sometimes used loosely to designate any one section of a divided poem |
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Structure |
Systems of internal relationships between parts of a poem. Formal structure is derived from the format of the poem on the page; thematic structure is derived from the meaning of the words |
Two types formal or thematic |
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Symbol |
Something perceptible that stands for an abstract idea to which it is related either conventionally, naturally, or personally |
The red hunting hat |
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Synthesis |
The description of one kind of sensory impression in terms of another |
If i could touch you, my hands would begin to sing... |
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Tension |
An effect of richness set up by the countering pulls of abstract and concrete, of denotation, of rhythm and meter, or of other opposed elements in a poem |
Stare down is |
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Tone |
The attitude of the poet or of the persona toward the subject of the poem and/or toward the reader |
Watch your..... |
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Understatement |
A device by which the full emotional significance of a situation is played down |
Under |
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Objectification |
When a person I being treated like an object |
Object |
