Important Terms to Know
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| allegory | show 🗑
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| alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | passing reference or indirect mention of a previously written text or historical event
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner
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| apostrophe | show 🗑
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| assonance | show 🗑
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| blank verse | show 🗑
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| show | a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
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| connotation | show 🗑
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| show | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession
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| show | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
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| show | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
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| dialect | show 🗑
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| show | as style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
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| elegy | show 🗑
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| show | a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the clauses or sentences. It is also called “epiphora
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| euphemism | show 🗑
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| show | a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
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| show | a group of syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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| free verse | show 🗑
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| show | an unreal exaggeration to emphasize the real situation
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| irony | show 🗑
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| jargon | show 🗑
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| juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| show | of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
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| show | use of an incorrect word in place of a similar-sounding word, which results in a nonsensical and humorous expression.
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| metaphor | show 🗑
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| meter | show 🗑
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| show | substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
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| ode | show 🗑
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| show | using words that imitate the sound they denote
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| show | a statement that contradicts itself
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| show | similarity by virtue of corresponding
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| panegyric | show 🗑
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| show | a literary work idealizing the rural life
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| show | attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
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| anthropomorphism | show 🗑
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| pathetic fallacy | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of words of the same root, with different endings.
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| show | a mental position from which things are perceived
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| show | a humorous play on words
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| refrain | show 🗑
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| show | correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
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| rhythm | show 🗑
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| show | witty language used to convey insults or scorn
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| show | move from one setting or context to another
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| simile | show 🗑
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| show | a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflectiony
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| sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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| symbol | show 🗑
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| show | using part of something to refer to the whole thing
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| show | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
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| show | moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark
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| cacophony | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech that employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, a positive statement expressed by negating its opposite expressions.
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