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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word |
| Allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |
| Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person |
| Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in successive words |
| Caesura | a break or pause in the middle of a verse line |
| Consonance | the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words |
| Couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse |
| Enjambment | continuation from one line of verse into the next line |
| Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| Internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity |
| Octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| Onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself |
| Personification | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas |
| Anapest | a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
| Dactyl | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables |
| Spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables |
| Trochee | a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables |
| Iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables |
| Sestet | a group of six lines of verse |
| Simile | a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things |
| Synaesthesia | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated |