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05/12/2011
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allusion
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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
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alliteration
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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
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anapest
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a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
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assonance
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Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody . rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence
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ballad
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any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody
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blank verse
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unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
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connotation
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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning
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consonance
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couplet
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dactyl
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denotation
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diction
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elegy
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epic
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figurative language
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foot
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free verse
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haiku
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hyperbole
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iambic
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iambic pentameter
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image
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imagery
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irony
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lemerick
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lyric poem
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direct metaphor
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extended metephor
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implied metephor
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meter
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narrative poem
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octave
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ode
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onomatopia
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persona
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personification
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quatrain
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refrain
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approximate rhyme
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exact rhyme
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end rhyme
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internal rhyme
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half rhyme
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off rhyme
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slant or imperfect rhyme
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rhyme scheme
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rhythm
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run on line
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seset
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sestine
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simile
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sonnet
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Shakespearean or English sonnet
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Petrarchan or Italian sonnet
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spondee
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stanza
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style
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symbol
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tercet
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theme
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title
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tone
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trochee
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