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Alliteration |
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Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
*Let us go forth to lead the land we love |
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the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
*We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans... |
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Anastrophe |
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transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and the words they control.
*The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew |
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Antistrophe |
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repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
*In 1931, ... -- without warning. In 1935, ... Ethiopia -- without warning. ... -- without warning. |
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Apostrophe |
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a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present. |
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Apposition |
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setting a synonymous or explanatory noun phrase beside another without hypotactic linkage. Mr.Johnson, a teacher I once knew, recently kicked the bucket. |
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repetition of the same sound in words close to each other.
*Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. |
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Blank verse |
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lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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harsh joining of sounds.
*We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will |
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a pause in a line of verse, usually coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences |
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an elaborate or extended comparison drawn between two unlike things not traditionally linked (i.e.: “stiff twin compasses” to signify separated lovers |
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Consonance |
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-repetition of consonants within or at the end of words -at the end of lines of poetry, this produces half-rhyme |
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Onomatopoeia |
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a word that sounds like what it names. Whoosh |
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End-stopped lines |
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-a line terminated with a relatively strong pause, usually indicated by the presence of a comma, a semicolon, dash, or period; the opposite of enjambment |
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| (front of card) Enjambment |
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| (back of card) -the running over of meaning from one line to another unhindered by punctuation or syntactical pauses; the opposite of an end-stopped line |
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Internal Rhyme |
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the occurrence of similar sounds within the lines of a poem rather than just at the ends of lines |
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exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect |
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a pattern of identical or similar images recurring throughout a passage or entire work |
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a pattern of identical or similar images recurring throughout a passage or entire work |
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an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it.
*What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young |
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apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another |
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a verbal joke based on the similarity of sound between words that have different meaning |
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Sight rhyme |
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Understatement |
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-a form of ironic expression that intentionally minimizes the importance of an idea or fact |
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implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it |
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Juxtaposition |
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the simultaneous presentation of two conflicting images or ideas, designed to make a point of the contrast (ex: an elaborate and well-kept church surrounded by squalorous slums) |
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Personification |
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attribution of personality to an impersonal thing |
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the turn in thought - from question to answer, problem to solution - that occurs at the beginning of the sestet in the sonnet |
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expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another; lack of agreement between appearance and reality, between expectation and result, |
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Free Verse |
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poetry that is free of regular rhythm, rhyme pattern, and verse form; often called vers libre |
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