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| 24043408 | alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | |
| 24043409 | assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | |
| 24043410 | consonance | repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds | |
| 24043411 | cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words | |
| 24043412 | euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words | |
| 24043413 | onomatopoeia | use of words which mimic their meaning in sound | |
| 24043414 | sibilance | hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh | |
| 24043415 | allegory | characters are symbols, has a moral | |
| 24043416 | apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | |
| 24043417 | didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching | |
| 24043418 | dramatic monologue | character "speaks" through the poem; a character study | |
| 24043419 | elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme | |
| 24043420 | sonnet | 14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | |
| 24043421 | connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | |
| 24043422 | denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | |
| 24043423 | diction | choice of words for effect | |
| 24043424 | syntax | word order or grammatical appropriateness | |
| 24043425 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 24043426 | caesura | a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | |
| 24043427 | couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work | |
| 24043428 | enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line | |
| 24043429 | feminine rhyme | latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) | |
| 24043430 | free verse | no fixed meter or rhyme | |
| 24043431 | iambic pentameter | 70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables | |
| 24043432 | internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | |
| 24043433 | masculine rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald recalled) | |
| 24043434 | meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time | |
| 24043435 | refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern | |
| 24043436 | rhyme | repetition of end sounds | |
| 24043437 | rhythm | wave-like recurrence of sound | |
| 24043438 | stanza | group of lines | |
| 24043439 | structure | internal organization of a poem's content | |
| 24043440 | allusion | a reference to something in literature of history | |
| 24043441 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines | |
| 24043442 | archetype | a character or personality type found in every society | |
| 24043443 | conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor | |
| 24043444 | hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement | |
| 24043445 | imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | |
| 24043446 | irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational | |
| 24043447 | metaphor | implied or direct comparison | |
| 24043448 | metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | |
| 24043449 | mood | the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 24043450 | oxymoron | compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other | |
| 24043451 | pace | tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem | |
| 24043452 | paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements | |
| 24043453 | parallelism | presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner | |
| 24043454 | persona | assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker' | |
| 24043455 | personification | giving a non-human the characteristics of a human | |
| 24043456 | simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' | |
| 24043457 | style | an author's combined use of these ideas into a recurring pattern of usage | |
| 24043458 | symbolism | something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is | |
| 24043459 | synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) | |
| 24043460 | theme | central idea | |
| 24043461 | tone | writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly | |
| 24043462 | understatement | saying less than one means, for effect | |
| 24043463 | paraphrase | summary | |
| 24043464 | first-person | Point of view in which the narrator uses "I" |
