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poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of the word |
| allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |
| apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person |
| assonance | the repetition of similar |
| 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 rhymes | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that suggest 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 |