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alliteration The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.”
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assonance the use of the same vowel sound with
different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
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cacophony the use of unharmonious or dissonant
speech sounds in language
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cou·plet
a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
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figurative The meaning of the poem that is
deeper than just the words on the page.
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im·age·ry figurative or descriptive language in
a literary work
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internal rhyme
a rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.
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literal word for word
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metaphor A comparison of two things not using
the words “like” or “as.”
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meter poetic measure; arrangement of
words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses
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onomatopoeia the formation of words whose sound
is imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated, such as hiss, buzz, and bang
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oxymoron A rhetorical device in which two
seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.”
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personification the attribution of human
characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc, as for literary or artistic effect
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prose the ordinary form of spoken or
written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
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rhyme A word agreeing with another in end
sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind
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simile a figure of speech in which two unlike
things are explicitly compared using “like” or “as”, for example “she is like a rose.”
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Stanza an arrangement of a certain number
of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
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Symbol something used for or regarded as
representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
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theme a unifying or dominant idea
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tone The overall mood or feeling in a
poem.