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alliteration
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The repition of stressed, initial sounds of words. these repeated sounds are usually made my consonants. EXample' whirring as wound wires whir"
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allusion
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a reefernce to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
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Hyberbole
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an exaggeration used to create humor, to emphasize particular points, and to create dramatic effects.
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image
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a word or phrase or use of words used to bring a picture to the reader's mind or evoke one of more of the five senses.
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Imagery
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is the use of words used to bring a picture ot the readers's mind or evoke one or more of the senses.
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Irony
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IN poetry, irony is an implied discrepancey between what is said and what is meant.
EX. a fine thing indeed! He muttered to himself. |
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metaphor
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the comparision of two unlike things or ideas, without usinge "like" or "as". IN a metaphor, a subject is spoken or wirtten about as though it were something else. Ex"" you are sunshine"
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simile
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a figure of speech that makes a direct comparision between two unlike subjects using "like" or "As"
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meter
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the meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. it is the measuremetn and pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of verse.
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onomatopoeia
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use of words whose sound suggests the sense of the words, or natural sound of the words.
EX: slittering hissing snakes of slytherin |
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Persona
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a character in a dramatic or literary work, the role that a person assumes in order to display his/her conscious intentions to himself/herself or others.
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Prose
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THe ordinary form of written language. MOst writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered prose.
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Rhyme
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a pattern of words that contains similar sounds (Such as known/though/snow.
A rhyme scheme explains the pattern of the endo rhymes in a poem (such as ababcc cdcdee) |
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Stanza
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A unified group of lines in a poem. A stanza is separted from other lines by a space, called a stanza break.
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Couplet
tercet quatrain |
couplet: a two line stanza
Tercet: a three line stanza QUatrain: A Four line STanza |