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| Iambic pentameter | A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (An iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.) |
| Rhyme | The repetition of sounds at the endsof words. |
| Consonance | The repetition of final consonant sounds in a series of words. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. |
| Assonance | repetition of an identical or similar vowel sound |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which something is described as though it is something else. |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| Symbol | Anything that stands for or represents something else. |
| Scansion | # # The rhythm or meter of a line or verse; The act of analysing the meter of poetry |
| Tone | reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| sonnet | # # a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
