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Know The lingo

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Definition
Alliteration   The occurence of the same sound at the beginning if adjacent or closely connected words  
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Allusion   A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art  
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Assonance   The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text  
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Ballad   A story/ narrative in poetic form  
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Consonance   The repetition of cononant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.  
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Diction   The authors specific word choice  
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Enjambment   This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any puntuation and continues onto the next line  
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Free Verse   Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter  
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Metaphor   a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connection  
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onomatopeia   A word that sounds like what it means  
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Rythm   The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged  
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simile   a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connection words , such s "like", or "as"  
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Stanza   A ubified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.  
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Symbol   An object or action that means something more tasn its literal meaning  
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Theme   The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader  
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Tone   The attitude the poems narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character ; serious, humerous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, etc  
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Verse   A single line of poetry  
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Anaphora   the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines  
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Personification   giving objects human abilities  
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Epistrophe   the repetition of a word or words at the end of successive phrases phrases, clauses, or lines  
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Caesura   A strong pause or stop within a line of poetry usually occurs in the middle of the line of poetry  
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