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| the emphasis or stress given a syllable in pronunciation | |
| a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, and characters represent specific ideas | |
| the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words | |
| a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | |
| a word or phrasemade from letters of another word or phrase | |
| the repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words | |
| a song transmitted orally from generation to generation that tells a story | |
| language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce | |
| a pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line | |
| an idea or expression that has become tired or trite | |
| refers to a type of informal diction that reflects casual, conversational language and often includes slang | |
| associations and implications that go beyond the meaning of a word | |
| two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhym and have the same meter | |
| the dictionary meaning of a word | |
| a writers choice of words or phrases that combine to create meaning | |
| poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | |
| a derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is trite and whose rhythm is monotonously | |
| a mournful contemplative lyrical poem written to commemorate someone who is dead | |
| a line that continues without a pause and continues to the next line | |
| a brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point | |
| refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear | |
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| ways of using language that deviate from the literal meanings of words | |
| a poem that may be catagorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas | |
| the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured | |
| an unintentional poem discovered in a nonpoetic context | |
| poems characterized by their nonconformity to establish patterns of meter, rhythm, and stanza | |
| a french word meaning type or kind | |
| a boldly exaggerated statement | |
| a word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses | |
| a literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true | |
| a light, humorous style of fixed poetry | |
| a type of brief poem that expresses personal emotions | |
| a figure of speechthat makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as | |
| when a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem | |
| the voice of a person telling the story | |
| a poetic stanza of eight lines | |
| a lengthy poem that expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style | |
| a term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes | |
| also known as free verse | |
| a statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense | |
| a form of a metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things | |
| a type of poem in which the poet arranges the lines of a poem to create a shape on the page | |
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| first person- uses I. third person- uses he, she, and they to tell a story | |
| a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word | |
| a four line stanza | |
| the repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words | |
| a six line stanza | |
| a thirty-nine line poem with six sestets and a an a three line stanza called an envoy | |
| a comparrision between two different things using the words like or as | |
| a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter | |
| a grouping of lines | |
| the emphasis or accent given a syllable in pronunciation | |
| a person, object, image or word that envokes a range of additional meanings | |
| the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns | |
| a three line stanza | |
| a central meaning or idea in literary work | |
| authors attitude toward the reader | |
| a tercet in which all three lines rhyme | |
| it is a figure of speech that is less than intended | |
| a generic term used to describe poetic lines | |
| a poem with nineteen lines divided into five tercets and a quatrain | |
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