8188845226 | connotation | repetition of the consonant sound in words | 0 | |
8188845227 | apostrophe | direct addressing to an abstract thinh | 1 | |
8188848599 | conceit | expanded metaphor | 2 | |
8188848600 | refrain | repetition of a line through the poem | 3 | |
8188852242 | sonnet | 14 lines regular rhyme scheme meter | 4 | |
8188852243 | scancion | scanning a like looking for rhyme scheme | 5 | |
8188854777 | persona | person imagined in the poem | 6 | |
8188854778 | ambiguity | meaning is not clear | 7 | |
8188857063 | allegory | a story line with two different meanings one is on the surface the other is religious | 8 | |
8188861238 | allusion | a reference to something outside the poem | 9 | |
8188861239 | cliche | term that has lost freshness due to overuse | 10 | |
8188864329 | hyperbole | exageration | 11 | |
8188864330 | litotes/meiosis | understatement negating something (she is no beauty, you wont be sorry) | 12 | |
8188868771 | synecdoche | a part of something used to signify the whole (ten hands=ten workers) | 13 | |
8188873632 | metonymy | term applied to something its closely associated with through experience | 14 | |
8188873633 | blank verse | traditional verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter | 15 | |
8188878999 | dramatic monologue | poem reveals personality through characters voice in dramatic situation | 16 | |
8188879000 | ode | serious elaborate long lyric expressed in dignified language | 17 | |
8188879055 | elegy | a poem of mourning and lamentation | 18 | |
8188886060 | tone | 19 |
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