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Allegory an interpretation of a written work that can uncover a hidden meaning
Alliteration repetition of the same sound/letter at the beginning of adjacent words
Allusion an indirect expression to call something to mind
Analogy comparison between two things (on the basis of their structure)
Assonance repetition of vowels
Apostrophe passage addressed to someone who is dead/absent or a thing
Aside something said in a play by a character that is supposed to be heard by the audience but by no one else on stage
Ballad a poem/song narrating a story in short stanzas
Blank Verse verse without rhyme
Caricature grossly exaggerated portrayal of something
Consonance repetition of similar sounds with consonants
Didactic intented to teach a moral lesson
Dissonance deliberate avoidance of assonance
Elegy mournful poem
Epic a long poetic composition usually centered upon a hero in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style
Epilogue concluding part of a work
Epigram expressing an idea in a clever, amusing way
Epiphany sudden insight
Epitaph a phrase written in memory of a dead person
Euphemism mild indirect word substituted for a harsher one
Euphony pleasing to the ear
Foil something that contrasts with and consequentially emphasizes and enhances it
Iambic Pentameter a type of meter:
Idiom a group of words that have a meaning that can not be deduced by the original words
Oxymoron "to make haste slowly" contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Paradox a statement or proposition that seems self
Pathos appeal to emotions
Proverb a general truth, common saying
Pun a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
Quatrain a stanza or poem of four lines usually with alternate rhymes.
Sestet last six lines of a sonnet
Soliloquy speaking ones thoughts aloud
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines
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