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| tone | the author's attitude toward the subject or audience |
| simile | figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are directly compared using the words like or as |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial and stressed sounds at the beginnings of words or in accented syllables |
| internal rhyme | rhyming of words within the same line of poetry |
| end rhyme | repetition of word-ending sounds |
| metaphor | an implied comparison between two things that are unlike |
| rhythm | arrangement of stressed and unstressed sounds in speech and writing |
| allusion | a reference to a person, thing, event, situation or aspect of culture, real or fictional, past or present |
| hyperbole | use of exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling or to create comic or satiric effects |
| satire | criticizing a subject by ridiculing it or evoking toward it an criticizing a subject by ridiculing it or evoking toward it an attitude of amusement, contempt, or scorn |
| quatrain | a stanza made up of four lines |
| figurative language | language extended beyond its literal meaning |
| free verse | a type of poetry written without a fixed pattern or meter or rhyme |
| onomatopoeia | use of words having sounds that suggest their meaning or which imitate the sounds associated with them |
| personification | figure of speech in which human characteristics are assigned to non-human things, or life is attributed to inanimate objects |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines, each with a pattern of five unstressed syllables, alternating with five stressed ones. |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | a poem of 14 lines (3 quatrains and 1 couplet); rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG |
| irony | any contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
| rhyme | the repetition of word-ending sounds; specifically, the repetition of accented vowel sounds plus any succeeding sounds |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhyme in lines of verse |
| imagery | The representation of language of sense experience: what can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled, as well as what can be felt internally |
| narrative poetry | A poem that tells a story or an account of an event or a series of events. It need adhere to no particular form. |
| soliloquy | A solo speech, usually of some length, and delivered by a character alone on stage. It conveys a character’s thoughts. |
| aside | If to addressed to another character, only that character and the audience hears that line. If not to another character, only the audience hears that line |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech using contradictory terms or ideas or feelings |
| foreshadowing | the technique of giving th reader |
| sense imagery | representation in language of sense experience |
| verbal irony | the surface meaning of what is said is the opposite of the intended meaning |
| situational irony | what is expected to occur is the opposite of what does occur |
| dramatic irony | the reader or audience knows more about what is happening than the character does |
| pun | a literary device that achieves humor or emphasis by playing on ambiguities |
| Groundling | spectator who stood in front of the stage to watch shows |
| malapropism | occurs when a character mistakenly uses a word he or she has confused with another word |
