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| 3503253106 | Alliteration | The occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 0 | |
| 3503253107 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, evokes certain emotions within readers and establishes a deeper layer of meaning by alluding to another work that they are familiar with | 1 | |
| 3503366762 | Ambiguity | The meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence that is uncertain. These words can have more than one meaning used to create humor in a text or passage | 2 | |
| 3503366763 | Antithesis | Literal meaning is the opposite, used when two opposite ideas are used together to bring a contrasting effect, the effect is to make things more dramatic by putting it with the opposite. | 3 | |
| 3503497541 | Approximate rhyme | Sound similar but are not actually the same the author keeps the same vowel sounds but uses words with different ending consonant sounds. | 4 | |
| 3503497542 | Slant rhymes | Lines in which the ending words sound somewhat alike, stressed syllables of ending consonants match but the following vowels do not | 5 | |
| 3503497543 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences | 6 | |
| 3503497544 | Aubade | A morning love song it's opposite is called a serenade, an evening love song | 7 | |
| 3503497545 | Ballads | It is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 8 | |
| 3503497546 | Blank verse | Has no rhyme scheme but does have an iambic pentameter, two syllables long one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable | 9 | |
| 3503535203 | Cacophony | Highlights a situation where there is a mixture of harsh sounds. | 10 | |
| 3503610105 | Caesura | A break between words with a metrical foot | 11 | |
| 3503610106 | Carpe Diem | An exclamation used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future | 12 | |
| 3503610107 | Conceit | A metaphor that compares two objects that are nothing alike | 13 | |
| 3503748075 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 14 | |
| 3503748076 | Consonance | A repetitive sound produced by consonants with a sentence or a phrase | 15 | |
| 3503748077 | Dactyl | Is a metrical foot, or beat in a line that contains three syllables where the first syllable is accented/stressed followed by unaccented second and third syllables | 16 | |
| 3503748078 | Denotation | A words literal meaning | 17 | |
| 3503748079 | Hyperbole | The exaggeration of statements or claims meant to be taken literally | 18 | |
| 3503748080 | Diction | Is the way a person talks, the way a person pronounces their words, and which words and phrases a person chooses to use | 19 | |
| 3503748081 | Dramatic monologue | Dialogue spoken by a character different from the poet's or writer's words in order to illuminate the character's qualities and emotions | 20 | |
| 3503748082 | Dramatic situation | A situation in a narrative or dramatic work in which people are invoked in conflicts that solicit the audience's empathetic involvement in their predicament | 21 |
