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| mood | the emotion created in the reader by part or all of a literary work |
| aim | a writer's purpose |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words that have different consonant endings |
| pastoral | a literary work idealizing rural life |
| allusion | a reference made to a person, event, object, or work from history or literature |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike objects that does not use like or as |
| enjambment | the continuation of a thought from one line of poetry to the next with no pause or break |
| speaker | the character who speaks in, or narrates, a poem--the voice assumed by the writer |
| symbol | a thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else |
| tone | the emotional attitude of the author of a literary work |
| end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines of verse |
| internal rhyme | the use of rhyming words within lines |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of end rhymes, or rhymes at the ends of lines of verse |
| repetition | a writer's conscious reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence, or other element |
| slant rhyme | the rhyming sounds are similar but not identical |
| free verse | poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, meter, or division into stanzas |
| theme | a central idea in a literary work |
| Petrarchan | an Italian sonnet that is divided into two parts; an octave and a sestet |
| elegy | a poem that laments the dead |
| feet | rhythmical units that make up English verse |
