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| 4377298407 | Alliteration | Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines | 0 | |
| 4377390737 | Allusion | A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character. | 1 | |
| 4377474985 | Ambiguity | A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing, even in its context | 2 | |
| 4377791367 | Amplification | the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability | 3 | |
| 4377796255 | Anagram | the writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word. From the syllables of a phrase to the individual letters of a word, any fraction can be jumbled to create a new form. | 4 | |
| 4377480832 | Analogy | A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar | 5 | |
| 4377495469 | Apostrophe | Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name | 6 | |
| 4377303796 | Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in vowel sounds that are unaccented | 7 | |
| 4377715630 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter (much of the plays of Shakespeare are written in this form) | 8 | |
| 4377333977 | Cacophony | A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder. This is often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation. | 9 | |
| 4377498066 | Cliché | Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated. If you've heard more than two or three other people say it more than two or three times, chances are the phrase is too timeworn to be useful in your writing | 10 | |
| 4377531003 | Connotation | The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning. Often, this is what distinguishes the precisely correct word from one that is merely acceptable | 11 | |
| 4377314774 | Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in vowel sounds that are unaccented. This produces a pleasing kind of near-rhyme | 12 | |
| 4377539505 | Contrast | Closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics | 13 | |
| 4377546515 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning apart from any associations or connotations. Students must exercise caution when beginning to use a thesaurus, since often the words that are clustered together may share a denotative meaning, but not a connotative one, and the substitution of a word can sometimes destroy the mood, and even the meaning, of a poem | 14 | |
| 4377722280 | Enjambment | The continuation of the logical sense — and therefore the grammatical construction — beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem. | 15 | |
| 4377564471 | Euphemism | An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement; substituting something innocuous for something that might be offensive or hurtful. | 16 | |
| 4377336127 | Euphony | A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language. | 17 | |
| 4377713764 | Free Verse | lines with no prescribed pattern or structure — the poet determines all the variables as seems appropriate for each poem | 18 | |
| 4377611252 | Hyperbole | An outrageous exaggeration used for effect. | 19 | |
| 4377729278 | Imagery | The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well. (can include sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell) | 20 | |
| 4377615652 | Irony | A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. | 21 | |
| 4377654208 | Metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other. | 22 | |
| 4377663276 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. | 23 | |
| 4377739196 | Mood | the general atmosphere created by the author's words. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words | 24 | |
| 4377350494 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like their meanings | 25 | |
| 4377665694 | Oxymoron | A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other | 26 | |
| 4377679395 | Paradox | A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth. | 27 | |
| 4377683565 | Personification | Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea | 28 | |
| 4377687899 | Pun | Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds | 29 | |
| 4377364066 | Repetition | The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. | 30 | |
| 4377717650 | Rhetorical Question | A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer. By the implication the answer is obvious, it is a means of achieving an emphasis stronger than a direct statement. | 31 | |
| 4377382597 | Rhyme | This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, are said to rhyme | 32 | |
| 4377692217 | Simile | A direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as." | 33 | |
| 4377695706 | Symbol | An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance | 34 | |
| 4377699401 | Synecdoche | Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole. | 35 | |
| 4377735616 | Synesthesia | An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another | 36 | |
| 4377762514 | Satire | the practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw | 37 | |
| 4377739195 | Tone | is the author's attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers. A work of writing can have more than one. An example could be both serious and humorous. set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details. | 38 |
