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| speaker | the voice of the poem |
| setting | time and place |
| imagery | descriptive language that appeals to the five senses |
| repetition | a device used to emphasize the importance of words and ideas particularly in persuasive writing and poetry by repeating them |
| parallelism | the repetition of a grammatical construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect |
| allusion | a short reference to a person, a place, an event , or another work of literature |
| simile | a comparison between two things using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things, saying one thing is the other |
| extended metaphor | a comparison that is elaborated on and developed throughout the poem |
| tone | the attitude the writer takes toward a subject |
| dialect | a provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language |
| diction | an author’s choice of words |
| theme | the main thought or idea expressed in a work |
| irony | the awareness of a contrast or difference between the way things seem and the way they really are |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. It is determined by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyming sound |
| alliteration | the repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words and of sounds within words |
| consonance | the repetition of ending consonant sound |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings |
| rhetorical question | a question posed without expectation of an answer but merely as a way of making a |
| ambiguity | the possibility of interpreting an expression or word in two or more distinct ways |
| free verse | poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that avoids a predetermined verse structure |
| Italian Sonnet | a 14 line poem with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE (also known as Petrarchan) |
| caesura | the pause or break in a line of poetry, usually created by punctuation |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| English Sonnet | a 14 line poem with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (also known as Shakespearean) |
