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English two terms

QuestionAnswer
Verse any composition in lines of more or less regular rythem
Theme central thought of the poem
Tone conveys an attitude towards the person addressed
irony a manner of speaking that implies a discrepancy
Sarcasm conspicuously bitter heave handed and mocking
Diction choice of words
allusion an indirect reference to any person place or thing
Denotation a meaning that is defined in a dictionary
Connotation overtones or suggestions of additional meaning that it gains from all this its context in which we have met it in the past
Image a word or sewuence of words refer to any sensory experience
Simile a comparison of two things (like,as,then)
Metaphor a statement that one thing is something else
Personification the endowing of a thing an animal or an abstract term with human characteristics.
hyperbole exaggeration
Symbol a person place or thing that suggest meanings beyond its literal sense
Stanza a recurring pattern of two or more lines in a verse
rhyme two or more WORDS that contain and identical or similar vowel sounds
onomatopoeia a literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action by the word that imitates the sound associated with it
Alliteratin the repition of tow or more sounds in succesive words in a line
Assonance the repetition of two or more vowels which creates a rhyme
Slant rhyme final constant sounds the same but the vowel sounds different
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