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AP Elements of Poetry:Literature and composition

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Figurative Language   language that cannot be taken literally  
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tone   the writers or speakers attitude toward the subject, the reader, of herself/ him self  
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denotation   the dictionary meaning of a word  
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connotation   what a word suggests beyond its meaning  
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imagery   the representation through language of sense experiance  
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foot   the basic unit of a meter, usually consisting of two syllables  
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stanza   a group of metrical lines whose metrical pattern is repeated trough out a poem  
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substitution   replacing the regular foot with a different one  
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extra syllable   an added beginning or ending in a line of poetry  
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elision   the omission of an unaccented syllable at the beginning or end of a line of poetry  
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scansion   the process of defining the metrical form of a poem  
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blank verse   unrhymed iambic pentameter  
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iambic pentameter   a line of poetry consisting of five iambs  
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iamb   a disyllabic foot in which the first syllable is unaccented and the second is accented  
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trochee   a disyllabic foot in which the first syllable is accented and the second is unaccented  
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phyrrhic   a disllabic foot in which both syllables are unaccented  
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spondee   a disyllabic foot in which both syllables are accented  
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simile   a means of comparing that are unalike using words such as like or as than similair to or resembles or seems  
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metaphor   a means of comparing things that are unalike by substituting a figurative term for a literal term  
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personification   giving a object human traits  
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apostrophe   a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting  
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metonymy   the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant  
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meter   organized rhythme  
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free verse   poetry that has no organized rhythme beyond line breaks  
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caesura   a pause within a line  
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enjambent   when the sense of the line moves with out pause into the next line  
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end stopping   when the end of a line corresponds with a natural speech pause  
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accent/stress   a syllable that is given more prominence than others in pronuciation  
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rhythme   any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound  
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symbol   something that means more than it is  
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allegory   a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface  
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paradox   an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true  
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hyperbole   an exaggeration in the service of truth  
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understatment   saying less than what one means  
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irony   meanings that extend beyond their use merely as a figure of speech  
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sarcasm   bitter or cutting speech  
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satire   a literally work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule  
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allusion   a reference to something in history or previous literature  
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alliteration   the repetition of initial consonant sounds  
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refrain   when repetition is done according to a fixed pattern  
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slant rhyme   when words have any kind of sound similarity  
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end rhyme   when rhyming words are at the end of the line  
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internal rhyme   when one or more rhyming words are within the line  
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feminine rhyme   when the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables  
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assonance   the repetition of vowel sounds  
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consonance   the repetition of the final consonant sounds  
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rhyme   the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds  
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masculine rhyme   when the ryhme sounds involve only one syllable  
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