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| 9814123349 | Alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words. | 0 | |
| 9814127069 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech in which someone, an abstract quality, or a nonexistent person is directly addressed as though present | 1 | |
| 9814136287 | Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "A land laid waste with all its young men slain" | 2 | |
| 9814142084 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. Ex: Shakespeare | 3 | |
| 9814155844 | Caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, indicated by a // Ex. to err is human// to forgive divine | 4 | |
| 9814160171 | Consonance | The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect. Ex: "the thick, black smoke" | 5 | |
| 9814169275 | Enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next, meaning the sentence does not end at the end of the line. | 6 | |
| 9814174294 | Extended metaphor | an implied analogy or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 7 | |
| 9814179053 | Free Verse | poetry that does not have regular rhyme or meter | 8 | |
| 9814183840 | Hyperbole | intentional exaggeration to create an effect | 9 | |
| 9814185657 | Juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 10 | |
| 9814189038 | Meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry, emphasizes the musical quality of the language | 11 | |
| 9814196829 | Metonymy | figure of speech where the substitution of the name of an object with a word closely associated with it. Ex: A kind is called "the crown", an object related to it | 12 | |
| 9814202218 | Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. | 13 | |
| 9814214395 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as | 14 | |
| 9814217569 | synedoche | a part of something used to refer to the whole. Ex: The redneck loaded fifty head of cattle into his truck, all hands on deck | 15 | |
| 9814226622 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements. If a poet shift words from the usual word order, this is a clue that you are dealing with an older style of poetry Ex: parallelism, repetition, questioning, rhetorical question | 16 | |
| 9814237879 | Paradox | a situation or action of feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. | 17 | |
| 9814246094 | Rhetorical shift | refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader | 18 |
