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to withdraw (oneself) from residence in one's native country. expatriates
a renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City. harlem renaissance
group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image imagism
1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of international style post modernism
a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles. modernism
restating an idea using the same words repetition
anything that stands for or represents something else symbol
regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem rhyme scheme
a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subject, using like or as simile
a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else metaphor
figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics personification
the use of words that imitate sounds onomatopoeia
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables alliteration
the repetition of similar final consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables consonance
the repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds assonance
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