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| repetition of a speech sound in a sequense of words; term usually only applied to consonants and hen the recurrent sound occurs in a conspicuous position at th beginning either of a word or of a stressed syllable within a word; EXP: bright blue balloon |
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| correspondance of the accented vowels as in "main" and "straight" |
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| the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| reference, without explicit identification, to a person, place, or event, or to another literary work |
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| (mood oram ambience) emotinal tonality pervading a section or the whole of a literary work |
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| unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (an iamb is a foot of meter that is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllabale, and pentameter means that each line hase five feet) |
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| (open form verse) poetic writing in which the rhythmic pattern is not organized into meter. Most free verse also has irregular units of stress pattern, we call it meter. |
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| in all speech we sense a rhythm (recognizable pattern of stresses). If this rhythm is structured into a recurrence of regular units of stress patter, we call it meter. |
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| words whose endings are spelled alike but have different pronunciations |
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| repetition of speech sounds that occurs within a line of verse |
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| repetition of words with any kind of sound similarity at the ends of lines; generally a modern convention |
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| language which seems harsh, rough, and unmusical |
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| language which strikes the ear as smooth, pleasant, and musical |
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| the implied meaning of a word, as opposed to its denotation(literal meaning) |
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| run-on lines because the line has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly |
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| a figure of speech that is a bold overstatement or extravagant exaggeration of fact or possibility |
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| a description of a sensory impression-a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch |
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| the use of words tro convey teh opposite of their literal meaning; or, when that which happens is the opposite of what one expects to happen |
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| a part of something is used to signify the whole, or the whole is used to signify the part. Ie: "all hans on deck" instead of calling people to the deck |
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| a word or expression which in literal usage denotes one kind of thing or action is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing or action. Ie: My love is a red rose. |
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| subject of that the metaphor is applied to |
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| the object used as the metaphor itself |
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| a comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| a conspicuous element, such as a type of incident, device, etc., which occurs frequently in works of literature |
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| frquent repetition within a single work of a significant verbal or musical phrase, description, or complex or images |
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| the formation of words in imitation of natural sounds (exp: crack, plash, plop) |
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| figure of speech in which contradictory terms are brought sharply together |
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| a statement or expression seemingly absurd or contradictory to common understanding but that is, in fact, true |
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| the figurative endowment of inanimate objects or qualities with human characteristics or personalities |
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| a repeated phrase or line |
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| teh arrangement and interrelationship of words (in a grammatical sense) |
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| a lyric poem cobnsisting of a single stanze of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an inticate rhyme scheme. There are two types: shakespearean and petrarchan |
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| octave(8 lines) rhyming ABBAABBA, follwed by sestet (6 lines) rhyming CDECDE |
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| three quatrains (4) and a concluding couplet, rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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| everuday speaking; usually packed with imagery; EXP: toad |
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| the comparison of two wildly different things in order to prove a point (oxymoron is one type) |
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| the dictionary literal meaning of a word |
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| choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |
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| brief quote at beginning of piece of writing an it either helps suggest teh theme |
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