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| 3710864714 | idiom | the personal use of words that marks and author's poetry ex. using "Fifth-month" instead of "May" | 0 | |
| 3710866065 | levels of diction | range from slang at one extreme to formal usage at the other, although in an age in which most poems use a level that stays in the middle of the scale, ranging | 1 | |
| 3710955287 | archaism | Words that are no longer in common use and other words that may not be familiar to the reader. | 2 | |
| 3710955288 | syncope | dropping a letter and interjecting a ' | 3 | |
| 3710956948 | denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 4 | |
| 3710956949 | connotation | the implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired | 5 | |
| 3710958142 | neologism | a word made up by the poet | 6 | |
| 3710958143 | inversion | words that fall out of their expected order | 7 | |
| 3710959936 | concrete diction | denote that which can be perceived by the senses | 8 | |
| 3710959937 | abstract diction | Language that describes qualities that cannot be perceived with the five senses | 9 | |
| 3710968838 | sensory imagery | auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory | 10 | |
| 3710968839 | onomatopoeia | Individual words like "splash" or "thud" whose meanings are closely related to their sounds | 11 | |
| 3710970376 | pun | the use of one word to imply the additional meaning of a similar-sounding word. | 12 |
