Poetic Terms Keating
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| show | a literaty device that creates interest by recurence of initial constant sounds of different words with in the same sentence
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| show | a comparison between two things, or pairs of things, to reveal their similarieties
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| show | a literary device which consists of rhetorical pause or digression to address a person (distant or absent) directly
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | a literary device. the author uses an explicit or literal meaning of a word in order to emphasize a specific, important fact
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| show | the distinct vocabulary of a particular author
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| Abstract Diction | show 🗑
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| show | a meditative poem in the classical tradition of certain Greek and Roman poems, which deals with more serious subjects (e.g. justice, fate, or providence)
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| show | descriptive language in which one thing is associated with another, through the use of similie, metaphore, or personification
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| show | a type of poety that avoids the patterns of regualr rhyme or meter
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| Heroic Couplet | show 🗑
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| show | Exaggeration for effect
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| Irony | show 🗑
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| show | when a character says one thing and means something else (Hamlet)
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| show | when an audience percieves something that a character in the literature does not know (Oedipus Rex)
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| Juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech in which one thing is equated with something else
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| Meter | show 🗑
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| show | one of the key ideas or literary devices that supports the main theme of a literary work
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| Onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speach that combines opposite qualities in a single term
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| Point of View | show 🗑
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| show | spoken by the persona, but he/she focuses on the thinking and actions of a particular character
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| show | the distinctive use of punctuation by diffrent authors
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| show | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack
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| show | the locale, time, and context in which the action of a literary work takes place
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| show | a comparison of different things by speaking of them as "like" or "as" the same
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| show | the use of words or objects to stand for or represent other things
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| show | an author's distinctive form of sentence construction
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