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| show | the repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. (ex: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism)
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| show | unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognize
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| show | unstressed unstressed stressed. Also called "galloping meter." (ex: 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house/ Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.")
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| show | repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work
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| show | speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. (ex: Wordsworth--"Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee")
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| show | the repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea
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| show | a narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a. Ballads may use refrains. (ex: "Jackaroe," "The Long Black Veil")
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| show | unrhymed iambic pentameter. (ex: Shakespeare's plays)
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| show | a short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry. Carpe diem poetry: "seize the day." Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present. (ex: Herrick's "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time")
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| common meter(Emily Dickinson) | show 🗑
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| show | two successive rhyming lines. couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet
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| consonance | show 🗑
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| show | stressed unstressed unstressed. This pattern is more common (as dactylic hexameter) in Latin poetry than in English poetry. Example: Grand go the years in the Crescent above them/Worlds scoop their arcs/ and firmaments row (Emily Dickinson)
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| diction | show 🗑
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| show | Proper, elevated, elaborate, and often polysyllabic language. This type of language used to be thought the only type suitable for poetry
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| Neutral (or middle diction) | show 🗑
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| Diction (informal or low) | show 🗑
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| show | a type of poem, derived from the theater, in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader. In some dramatic monologues, especially those by Robert Browning, the speaker may reveal his personality in unexpected and unflattering ways
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| show | rhyme is at the end of a line
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| end-stopped line | show 🗑
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| enjambent | show 🗑
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| foot (prosody) | show 🗑
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| heroic couplet | show 🗑
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| show | hyperbole is exaggeration for effect; litotes is understatement for effect, often used for irony.
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| iambic pentameter: Iamb (iambic) | show 🗑
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| show | images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sight, sounds, tastes, smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile). Imagery refers to images throughout a work or throughout the works of a writer or group of writers.
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| show | an exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry: "Once upon a midnightdreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
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| metaphor | show 🗑
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| metaphysical conceit | show 🗑
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| meter | show 🗑
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| show | the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic.
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| show | a rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true.
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| show | a blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described. Example: buzz, slurp.
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| show | attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
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| petrarchan or italian sonnet | show 🗑
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| petrarchan sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. (ex: June--moon)
-end rhyme
-slant rhyme
-rhyme scheme
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| show | the pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry
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| scan (scansion) | show 🗑
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| show | a six-line stanza or unit of poetry.
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| shakespearean or english sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
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| show | a direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison
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| slant rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | a closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
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| show | stressed stressed.
A two-syllable foot with two stressed accents. The opposite of a pyrrhic foot, this foot is used for effec
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| show | a group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
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| show | word order and sentence structure.
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| trochee (trochaic) | show 🗑
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