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A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history
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alludes to the Christmas Story of the three wise men.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
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Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in com-pre-HEND or in-ter-
VENE. An anapestic meter rises to the accented beat as in Byron's lines from "The Destruction of
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as
in "I rose and told him of my woe." |
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A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated
in a direct style. Some types of ballads are old folk ballads and literary ballads. Folk ballads
were composed by unknown singers and passed along orally for decades before they were written
down. Literary ballads are written in imitation of the old ballads. |
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A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's sonnets,
Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and Robert Frost's meditative poems such as "Birches" include
many lines of blank verse. |
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The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables
or important words. |
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A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. |
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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it. |
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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words. |
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–noun, plural -gies.
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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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adjective Also, ep·i·cal.
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noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style. |
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speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech. |
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(in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves. |
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–noun Prosody .
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
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a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. |
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–noun Rhetoric .
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obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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Prosody .
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an iamb.
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Usually, iambics. a verse or poem consisting of iambs. |
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a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
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–verb (used with object)
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to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.
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to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc. |
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–noun, plural -ries.
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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. |
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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
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a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
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a short poem of songlike quality |
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| t is a comparison to two things with out using "like" or "as" that "directly states something is . |
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a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas |
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An implied metaphor is a subtle comparison. |
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Music .
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the rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value. |
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Definition: a poem that tells a story and has a plot |
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Music .
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a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. |
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a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. |
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the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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a person.
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personae, the characters in a play, novel, etc. |
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the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. |
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a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.–noun
a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
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a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus. |
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An approximate rhyme has the same end sound, but the vowels are a bit different |
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An exact rhyme is, as the name indicates, a perfect rhyme, like goat and boat! |
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–noun Prosody .
rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry. |
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noun Prosody .
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse. |
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–noun Prosody .
rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical. |
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the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences. |
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verb (used without object)
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to make rhyme or verse; versify. |
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It is called an enjambment, meaning no punctuation at the end of a line. |
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Prosody . the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit. Compare octave. |
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Also called: sextain an elaborate verse form of Italian origin, normally unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each and a concluding tercet. The six final words of the lines in the first stanza are repeated in a different order in each of the remaining five stanzas and also in the concluding tercet. |
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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. |
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Prosody . a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. |
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| Shakespearean or English sonnet |
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a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg . |
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| trarchan or Italian sonnet |
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a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. |
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–noun Prosody .
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. |
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–noun Prosody .
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |
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–verb (used with object)
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to call by a given title or appellation; denominate. |
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a letter, figure, or other character or mark or a combination of letters or the like used to designate something. |
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Prosody . a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines. |
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a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic. |
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the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like. |
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verb (used with object)
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to sound with a particular tone.
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to give the proper tone to (a musical instrument).
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to modify the tone or general coloring of. |
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noun Prosody .
a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. |
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