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| The repetition of sounds in nearby words, most often involving the initial consonants of words (and sometimes the internal consonants in stressed syllables). |
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| Comparing objects using like or as |
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| An indirect reference to a text, myth, event, or person outside the poem itself (compare echo). Although it is woven into the context of the poem, it carries its own history of meaning: for example, see the reference to Hamlet in T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917). |
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| The ability to mean more than one thing. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter; for example, see Alfred, Lord Tennyson, |
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| A narrative poem, impersonally related, that is (or originally was) meant to be sung. |
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| What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly and directly describes (compare denotation). |
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| Standard ways of saying things in verse, employed to achieve certain expected effects. Conventions may pertain to style (e.g., the rhyme scheme of the sonnet) or content (e.g., the figure of the shepherd in the pastoral). |
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