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4969231020Assonancethe use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another0
4969235021Blank Versepoetry that is not rhymed but that has a regular rhythm1
4969239204Carpe Diemterm that refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most of life and should enjoy it before it ends ("seize the day")2
4969249683Conceita kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising or clever way. Often, they are extended metaphors.3
4969265356Internal Conflictpsychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plots suspense4
4969274982External Conflictstruggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot.5
4969285092Connotationrefers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.6
4969292283Couplettwo successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought.7
4969311812Caesuraa pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics.8

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