| A | B |
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| paraphrase | changing a poem into prose |
| poetic liscense | the privelege of a poet to break the rules of prose |
| speaker | the voice the poet uses to express himself |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of the way a poem rhymes |
| Elizabeth sonnet (shakespearean) | 3 quatrains and a couplet |
| Italian sonnet (petrarchan) | an octave and sestet, major thought change between the 2 |
| personification | literary device where innimate objects are given living characteristics |
| metaphor | figure of speech where 2 unrelated objects are directly compared |
| onomatopoeia | literary device where the word imitates the sound it stands for |
| alliteration | literary device where the beggining consonent sounds are repeated |
