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- imagery
- the representation through language of sensory experience
- line
- a sentence's equivalent
- allegory
- a narrative or description having a second meaning between the surface one. Each item in the original lines up/matches the second
- personification
- giving life like qualities o an inanimate object
- traditional verse
- verse that has regular rhythm and regular rhyme
- figurative
- language that is not literal
- masculine
- rime involving only one syllable
- hyperbole
- a gross exaggeration
- assonance
- the repetition of two or more vowels sounds in a line of poetry to create an effect
- denotation
- the dictionary definition of a word
- internal rime
- rime in which one or both of the rime words occur within the line
- rime scheme
- a poems rime pattern, either the entire poem or its stanzas
- metaphor
- a comparison between two unlike objects
- dramatic irony
- a character says one thing, but the audience knows it means something else
- slant rime
- rime that is only approximate, often involves assonance
- apostrophe
- addressing a dead or absent person or object as if alive or present
- caesuras
- a pause created by punctuation or rhetoric in the middle of a poetic line
- consonance
- the repetition of two or more consonant sounds,other than initial,in a line of poetry to create an effect
- understatement
- saying both what you mean and something else
- pun
- a word operating off two denotations
- motif
- a theme, image, and symbol repeated throughout a work for purposes of unifying the work
- situational irony
- expecting one thing to happen and something else does
- stanza
- a pararaph's equivalent
- synechdoche
- using a part of something to represent a whole
- paradox
- a seeming contradiction
- verbal irony
- saying one thing but meaning something else
- blank verse
- has regular rhythm but irregular or no rhyme; sometimes it is called unrhymed iambic pentameter
- allusion
- a reference to another source, usually Biblical, historical, or mythological
- enjanbnent
- the absence of a pause at the end of a poetic line because the sense of the line continues with the next line
- alliteration
- the repetition of two or more initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry to create an effect
- rhythm
- the regular arrangment of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
- free verse
- has irregular or no rhythm and irregular or no rhyme; as a form, it first appeared in the twentieth century
- external rime
- rime that occurs at the end of a line
- connotation
- the emotional impact of a word
- onomatopoeia
- the attempt to recreate phonetically the sound something makes
- prose
- the opposite of poetry
- metonymy
- use in something closely associated with an object or person to represent that object or person
- simile
- a comparson between two unlike objects usually introduced with like or as
- feminine
- rime involving two or more syllables
- symbol
- saying both what you mean and something else
- foil
- a minor character who shares similarities with a major character but their differences makes the major character stand out more; device to develop characterization
- anathora
- a rhetorical device where three or more lines or sentences beginnings are repeated