english poetry terms
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| Hyperbole | exaggeration for effect
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| assonance | The repetition of identical vowels in different words in a single line of poetry
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| Free verse | Poetry with no pattern of rhymes or meter
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| alleteration | The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often beginning words
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| Enjambment | The continuation of a complete idea from one line to the next line or without end punctuations
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| consonance | The repetition of similar consonants sounds in a single line of poetry
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| Personification | A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes
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| Meter | A particular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry
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| couplet | A pair of lines that are the same length,rhyme, and form a complete thought
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| Imagery | references that triggers memories of sight sounds tastes smells
and sensations of touch
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| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which two tings compared without like or as, usaually by saying one thing is another
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| onomatopeia | words that inmate or suggest through sound the activity being described
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| Allusion | An implied or indirect reference to something assumed to be known, such as an historical event or person, a well-known quotations from literature, or a famous work of art
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