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Allegory   an interpretation of a written work that can uncover a hidden meaning  
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Alliteration   repetition of the same sound/letter at the beginning of adjacent words  
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Allusion   an indirect expression to call something to mind  
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Analogy   comparison between two things (on the basis of their structure)  
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Assonance   repetition of vowels  
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Apostrophe   passage addressed to someone who is dead/absent or a thing  
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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  
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Ballad   a poem/song narrating a story in short stanzas  
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Blank Verse   verse without rhyme  
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Caricature   grossly exaggerated portrayal of something  
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Consonance   repetition of similar sounds with consonants  
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Didactic   intented to teach a moral lesson  
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Dissonance   deliberate avoidance of assonance  
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Elegy   mournful poem  
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Epic   a long poetic composition usually centered upon a hero in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style  
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Epilogue   concluding part of a work  
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Epigram   expressing an idea in a clever, amusing way  
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Epiphany   sudden insight  
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Epitaph   a phrase written in memory of a dead person  
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Euphemism   mild indirect word substituted for a harsher one  
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Euphony   pleasing to the ear  
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Foil   something that contrasts with and consequentially emphasizes and enhances it  
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Iambic Pentameter   a type of meter:  
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Idiom   a group of words that have a meaning that can not be deduced by the original words  
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Oxymoron   "to make haste slowly" contradictory terms appear in conjunction  
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Paradox   a statement or proposition that seems self  
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Pathos   appeal to emotions  
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Proverb   a general truth, common saying  
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Pun   a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word  
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Quatrain   a stanza or poem of four lines usually with alternate rhymes.  
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Sestet   last six lines of a sonnet  
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Soliloquy   speaking ones thoughts aloud  
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Sonnet   a poem of fourteen lines  
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