| Definition | Literary Term | Examples |
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| repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound? | |
| suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative? | |
| any poem having the form and musical quality of a song ? | |
| poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet? | |
| a comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking? | |
| conveying an attitude or mood? | |
| the orderly arrangement of words into sentences to express ideas? | |
| the author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects? | |
| rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds? | |
| the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs? | |
| the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds? | |
| the 'mental pictures' that readers experience with a passage of literature? | |
| a particular system of signs used by members of a group to communicate with each other? | |
| abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions? | |
| the final consonants of the stressed syllables match each other but the vowels differ? | |
| a casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature? | |
| exaggeration or overstatement? | |
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| a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language? | |
| a poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end of the same metrical line? | |
| frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level? | |
| a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns? | |
| the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes? | |
| a metaphor that extends throughout the majority of a poem? | |
| repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words? | |
| the opposite of exaggeration? | |
| unrhymed lines of ten syllables? | |
| words that (1) match each other to some degree in sound and meaning, (2) come from a common root in an older language, but (3) did not actually serve as a root for each other? | |
| the unfolding or growth of a character as the plot develops? | |
| Japanese verse form of three short lines? | |
| use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such as way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions? | |
| a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean the opposite of what is written literally? | |
| statement that contradicts itself? | |
| the standard language of written communication, formal speeches, and presentations? | |
| use of words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language? | |
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