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| a repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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| a rhetorical technique in which words, phrases, or ideas are strongly contrasted, often by means of a repetition of grammatical structure. |
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| a short saying or pointed statement. |
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| a simple narrative poem in four-line stanzas, usually meant to be sung and usually rhyming abcb. |
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| a pair of rhyming lines that expresses a complete thought. |
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| a poem that expresses a speakers feelings of loss. |
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| a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of verse. |
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| a long story, often told in verse, involving heroes and Gods. |
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| poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas. |
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| a word or phrase that names something that can be seen, heard, touched, or smelled. |
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| the use of rhyming words within lines. |
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| poetic technique in which the normal order of words in an utterance is altered. |
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| a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker. |
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| a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another. |
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| a lofty lyric poem on a serious theme. |
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| the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they appear. |
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| rhetorical technique in which a writer emphasis the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form. |
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| the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. |
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| the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose. |
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| the use of a sound, word, phrase, sentence, or other element. |
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| one asked for effect but not meant to be answered. |
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| an extraordinary but literal use of language to achieve a particular effect on audience. |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| the rhyming sounds are similar but not identical. |
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| fourteen-line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes. |
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| to surrender, as one's rights or the possession of something. |
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| a place where two things meet or joined. |
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| extremely harmful, as a disease. |
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| a shallow place in a body of water. |
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| wind blowing almost continually in the same course, from NE to SW in a belt N of the equator & from SE to NW in one S of the equator. |
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