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show The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.  
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show The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words.  
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Elegy   show
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show Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.  
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Narrative Poem   show
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Personification   show
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Sestet   show
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show A figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa; any part or portion or quality of a thing is used to stand for the whole of the thing or vice versa.  
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Visual Imagery   show
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Abstract Diction   show
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Auditory Imagery   show
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show A two-lined stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same.  
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Enjambment   show
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show The contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning.  
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show Typically a lyrical verse written in praise of,or dedicated to someone or something which captures the poet's interest or serves as an inspiration for the poem.  
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show A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any various set of combinations.  
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Simile   show
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show The ordering of words into patterns or sentences.  
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Alliteration   show
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Ballad   show
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show A metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables.  
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Extended Metaphor   show
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Litote   show
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show The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. (Ex. Buzz)  
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show A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.  
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show Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.  
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show Any image that can be felt, touched, tasted, or smelled.  
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Allusion   show
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Blank Verse   show
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Diction   show
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show Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.  
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Lyric Poem   show
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Overstatement   show
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Understatement   show
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Quatrain   show
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Sonnet   show
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show A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme.  
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Anapest   show
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show A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause.  
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Didactic Poem   show
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show A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.  
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show A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term such as "like" or "as".  
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show A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. It usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness.  
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Rhyme   show
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Spondee   show
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Tone   show
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show A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. This is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness.  
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Cinquain   show
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Dramatic Monologue   show
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Imagery   show
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Meter   show
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show A situation/action/feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make some sense.  
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show A regular pattern of rhyme, one that is consistent throughout the extent of the poem.  
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Stanza   show
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Trochee   show
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show A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.  
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Concrete Diction   show
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show A poem which employs a dramatic form or some elements of dramatic techniques as a mean of achieving poetic ends. (Ex. Dramatic monologue).  
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Implied Metaphor   show
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Metonymy   show
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Parallelism   show
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show Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.  
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Rhythm   show
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show An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry beyond its literal references or dictionary definition.  
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Aporia   show
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show A figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or using deviation from normal or logical word order to produce an effect.  
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Epistrophe   show
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Symploce   show
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show A repetition device where the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.  
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show Inversion of the natural or usual word order. This can emphasize a point or make it more awkward.  
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Chiasmus   show
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Anadiplosis   show
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End-stopped   show
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