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| onomatopoeia | the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer |
| parallelism | a rhetorical technique in which a writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them the same grammatical form |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a person |
| refrain | a line or group of lines repeated in a poem or song |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| slant rhyme | near rhyme; the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| stream of consciousness | literary work that attempts to render the flow of feelings, thoughts, and impressions |
| tone | the emotional attitude toward the reader |
| trochee | a poetic foot consisting of a strongly stressed syllable followed by a weakly stressed syllable |
| iamb | a poetic foot contain gin one weakly stressed syllable followed by one strongly stressed syllable |
| imagery | language which evokes strong images |
| images | vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind |
| implied metaphor | a metaphor in which one of the two things being compared is not stated |
| incongruity | language which is uneven in structure |
| lyric poem | a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| mixed metaphor | an expression or passage that mixes together two or more metaphors |
| mood | the emotion created in the reader by a literary work |
| motivation | a force that makes a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way |
| couplet | two lines of verse that usually rhyme |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| anapest | a poetic foot contain gin two weakly stressed syllables followed by one strongly stressed syllable |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds |
| ballad | a simple narrative poem in four-line stanzas, usually meant to be sung |
| cadence | any rhythmic flow of sound |
| catalog | a list of people or things |
| coda | any part of a poem specifically meant to conclude or end a verse |
| consonance | a kind of slant rhyme in which the ending consonant sounds of two words match, but the preceding vowel sound does not |
| dactyl | a poetic foot made up of a strongly stressed syllable followed by two weakly stressed syllables |
| elegy | a poem that laments the dead |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor which is developed over several lines of poetry, usually as a point-by-point presentation |
| foot | a unit of rhythm consisting of strongly and weakly stressed syllables |
| free verse | poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, meter, or division into stanzas |
