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8705913393Metaphysical ConceitA type of simile or metaphorwhich establishes a striking parallel between startlingly dissimilar things.0
8705913394limited narrationthe narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one character (main character)1
8705913395CaesuraA strong pause within a metrical foot2
8705913396Apostropheaddress or someone speaking to an absent or imaginary person3
8705913397carpe diemseize the day4
8705913398Blank VersePoetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter5
8705913399Enjambmentthe continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next6
8705913400Elizabethan sonnetA fourteen-line poem with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg & three quatrains7
8705913401free indirect discoursecharacters' thoughts, feelings, and words are filtered through the third-person narrator8
8705913402free versePoetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme or rhyme9
8705913403AssonanceRepetition of vowel sounds10
8705913404Iambunstressed, stressed11
8705913405iambic pentametera poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable 10 beats per line12
8705913406Gothic novelA novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action13
8705913407TrocheeStressed, unstressed14
8705913408verbal ironyA figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant(sarcasm)15
8705913409AlliterationRepetition of initial consonant sounds16
8705913410ToneAttitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character17
8705913411SymbolSomething that represents something else18
8705913412ScansionThe process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain19
8705913413rhyming coupleta pair of lines that rhyme20

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