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| the repetition of initial consonants sounds (aka: consonance) |
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| The repeition of vowel sounds. |
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| The coparison of two unlike things by saying one is the other. Often forms of the "to be" berb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison. |
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| the comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like or as the other. |
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| the use of words which imitate sounds. |
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| the giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having thiose traits. |
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| the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. |
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| the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words. |
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| a grouping of two or more lines of a poem; a "paragraph" of poetry. |
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| something which represents something else besides itself; |
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| a reference to another time, work, person, ect. |
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| the use of contradictory terms "together" for effect. |
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| The addressing of a person, place, object, etc., which is not there. |
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| grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry (like a question mark), usually near the middle of the line. |
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| dictionary meaning of a word |
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| the associations called up by a word that goes beyone its dictionary meaning. Poets especially tend to use words rich in _____________. |
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| A pair of lines that rhyme and have the same meter, like a number of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| a run on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |
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| a line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. |
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