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Poetry Explication
Term | Definition |
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Speaker | the voice or the person speaking |
alliteration | repetition of initial consonance sounds in words close together |
apostrophe | a speaker talks directly to an inanimate object, or person who is absent or dead |
diction | word choice |
hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
onomatopoeia | words that sound similar to their meaning |
theme | the message or central idea expressed in a single universal sentence |
symbol | something that stands for itself as well as something else |
allusion | a reference to something that everyone should know |