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Poetic devices
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10th Grade
04/27/2009

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Allegory
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A literary work in which characters and events have 2 levels of meaning: literal and symbolic
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Alliteration
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The repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Allusion
Definition
A brief reference to a person,place,event from history, literature,geography, the bible, mythology, or any other area of knowledge
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Anaphora
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The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines
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Apstrophe
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A figure of speech in which an absent person, an abstract quality or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Caesura
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Pause or break in the middle of a lie of verse
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Enjambment
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One line of verse continues to the next without a punctuated pause
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeraion or overstatement of the truth
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Metaphor
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a comparison between wto unlike objects
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Mood
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The emotion the reader feels from the poem or story
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words which imitate sound
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Parallelism
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the use of phrases,clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning
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Personification
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giving inanimate objects human feelings,thoughts, or attitudes
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Simile
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A comparison between two objects using "like" or "as"
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Symbol
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An object or action that represents something else
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Tone
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the authors attitude towards his or her subject
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Ballad
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A song that tell stories, narrative poetry, lyrics beging, middle, and end
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Ode
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A lyrical Poem praising an individual, expresses tribute
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Haiku
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A traditional japanese form f poetry
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Elegy
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A poem of sorrow written for someone who died
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Richard Cory
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Edwin Arlington Robinson -
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CCXXXII ELEGY
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Lord Byron
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Ode to my socks
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