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| onomatopoeia | a word that is formed by its sound
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| end rhyme | the use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry
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| ballad | tells a story in short stanzas
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| alliteration | repetition of letters in word
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| consonance | recurrence of consonants
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| lyric | expressing writers emotions
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| elegy | poem about death
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| ode | a poem meant to be sung
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| sonnet | 14 lines
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| petrarchaen sonnet | abbaabba
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| shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet with concluding couplet in iambic pentameter
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| metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
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| synechdoche | address something as a part of a whole
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| oxymoron | adjective/noun that contradict eachother
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| paradox | sentence that contradicts itself
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| meter | number of beats in a line
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| internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line
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| allusion | reference to another piece of literature
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| epic | long poem illustrating the deeds of a hero
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| haiku | -17 syllables
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| apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person
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| hyperbole | exaggeration
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| litotes | understatement
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| refrain | A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza.
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| couplet | two lines in a verse, in the same meter, joined by rhyme
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| free verse | poetry that doesnt follow the rhyme or meter of the rest of the poem
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| SIFFSIST | -speaker-imagery-form-figuritive lang.-symbol-irony-struture-tone
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| CPETSISST | -characterization-POV-event-tone-symbol-impagery-structure-setting-theme
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| diction | choice and use of words in writing
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| syntax | arrangement of words and phrases
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| wry | mocking
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| bantering | playful/teasing remark
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| bemused | confuse
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| simpering | flirty
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| urbane | courteous
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| strident | loud/hard
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| derisive | mocking
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| beseeching | beg/request
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| pedantic | overly concerned
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| conciliatory | compromising
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| pompous | self important
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| fatuous | silly/pointless
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| laconic | style using very few words
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