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| Literal meaning of a word. |
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| What a word suggests beyond its lieteral meaning. |
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| A figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attriuted to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces, or abstract ideas. |
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| Representation through language of sense perception; different types include auditory (hearing), olfactory (smell), gusatory (taste), tactile (touch), organic (internal sensation like hunger, fatigue, etc), kinesthetic (movement). |
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| Prevailing emotional attitude in a work. |
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| Use of words wose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named. |
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Figure of Speech (Broad category) |
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| A way of saying one thing and meaning another (most of these poetic terms are classified as figures of speech). |
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| A comparison is made through the expression of a word or phrase, such as like, as, seems, etc. |
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An implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. 1) Both the literal and figurative terms are named
2) The literal term is named and the figurative term is implied 3) The literal term is implied and the figurative term is named
4) Both the literal and figurative terms are implied
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An exaggeration in the service of truth. ((Hyperbole)) |
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| Saying less than one means. |
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Metonymy (Also synecdoche) |
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| Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (Ex. all hands on deck, the pen is mightier than the sword). |
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| A discrepancy between what the speaker says and the poem means. |
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| The speaker can be the poet speaking as him/herslf, or the poet can take on a persona or character. |
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| A reference to something in histroy or previous literature. |
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| An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. |
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| Repetition of initial consonant sounds (Ex. tried and true, safe adn sound). |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds (Ex. time out of mind, free and easy). |
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| Repetition of final consonant sounds (Ex. First and last, short and sweet). |
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| One or more rhyming words are within the line. |
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| Rhyming words are at the ends of lines. |
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| The experience a poem communicates. |
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| The part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated and paraphrased. |
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| Long, elaborate lyric poem usually dignified or exalted in tone, often written to praise someone or something. |
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| Figure of speech in which someone absent or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
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