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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.
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Allusion
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A reference to a historical event, to biblical, mythological, or literacy characters and incidents with which the reader is assumed to know.
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Assonance
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The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds.
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Ballad
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A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
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Blank Verse
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Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Carpe Diem
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A Latin expression that means seize the day."Live for today and enjoy the pleasures of the moment."
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Figurative Language
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The intentional and imaginative use of words and comparisons that are not literal, but that create original, vivid, and often unexpected images and associations. It's also called metaphorical language.
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Hyperbole
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When deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow!"
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Imagery
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An expression or recreation through language of any experience perceived through the senses. "I am smelling a red rose."
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Irony
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A tone or figure of speech in which there is a striking difference or contradiction, discrepancy, between what is expressed and what is meant. A bank robber robbing a police station.
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Lyric
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A poem such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style.
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Metaphor
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Figure of speech in which two things are compared usually by saying one thing is another without using the words like or as.
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Onomatopoeia
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Use of words whose sound reflects their sense or meaning. "Buzz, crackle, hiss!"
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech in which two sharply contrasting terms are paired for emphasis or ironic effect. "Jumbo shrimp, seriously funny."
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Personification
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A form of metaphor, or simile, in which nonhuman things are given human qualities.
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Simile
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a figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word like or as. "Your face is red as a tomato!"
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Symbol
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Something that stands for something else. Circle is symbolic of life.
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Anaphora
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The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of the successive clauses, sentences or lines. Modula
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Modulation
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In poetry, the harmonious use of language relative to the variations of stress and pitch.
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Modulation
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To change or vary the pitch, intensity, or tone of (one's voice or a musical instrument, for example)
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Phonetic Symbolism
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The branch of linguistics that holds that sounds themselves have meaning
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Euphony
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The quality of being pleasing to the ear, esp. through a harmonious combination of words
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Cacophony
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A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds: "a cacophony of deafening alarm bells", "a cacophony of architectural styles"
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