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Poetry terminology

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ALLITERATION   The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.  
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ANTONYM   Words that are opposite in meaning  
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ASSONANCE   The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry  
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CONNOTATION   The personal or emotional association called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning.  
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DENOTATION   The dictionary meaning of a word  
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE   A form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of the word  
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FORM   The arrangement, manner, or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, limmerick, or haiku.  
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FREE VERSE:   Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme  
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HOMONYM   Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but two different meanings  
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HOMOPHONE   Two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meaning and spellings.  
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HYPERBOLE   An exaggeration of the truth.  
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IMAGE   A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.  
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IMAGERY   Figurative language used to create particular mental images.  
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METAPHOR   An association of two completely different objects as being the same thing.  
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METER   The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.  
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RHYME   The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.  
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RHYTHM   The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.  
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SETTING   The time and place of a literary work that established its context.  
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SIMILE   A figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using "like," "as," or "as though."  
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STRUCTURE   The design or form or a literary work.  
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SYMBOL   An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.  
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SYNONYM   A word or words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.  
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TONE   The implied attitude of a writer (or speaker) toward the subject and characters of a work.  
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