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| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds |
| Analysis | The process of examining the components of a literary work. |
| Syntax | The way in which words or sentences are ordered and connected |
| Synecdoche | Figure of speech, "all hands on deck, lend me your ears" |
| Tone | Author's attitude toward subject |
| Stanza | Grouping of poetic lines |
| Repetition | A word or phrase used more then once to emphasize an idea |
| Onomatopoeia | imitate sounds |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyme that's inside the lines |
| Imagery | anything the affects the reader's senses |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration for literary effect that is not meant to be interpreted literally |
| Essay | a short paper on one topic |
| Apostrophe | addressing something that isnot present (Death, be not proud) |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to inanimate objects |
| Parallelism | repetion of words or sentence structure within text (I came, I saw, I conquered) |
| Anaphora | parallelism at the beginning of successive lines (Martin Luther King's "I have a dream") |
| Juxtaposition | contrast to emphasize extremes |
| foil | contrast such as a diamond on black velvet |
| Line enjambment | a sentence continues beyond a stanza break |
| cesura | poetic sentences end with the line end. |
