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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