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9093254916AlliterationRepeating consonant sound in a close proximity to others.0
9093254917AllusionA casual reference in literature to a person, place, or event in another passage of literature.1
9093267124AnapestA foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable.2
9093277131ApostropheAct of addressing some abstraction of personification that is not physically present.3
9093281615AssonanceRepeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words.4
9103677603BalladA narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.5
9103700719Blank VerseUnrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents.6
9103719117BildungsromanGerman term for coming-of-age story.7
9103721948CaesuraA pause separating phrases within lines of poetry.8
9103728445ColloquialismA word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal writing.9
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