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| contrast | to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences |
| first person | used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself |
| homophone | a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both |
| second person | used by a speaker in referring to the one or ones to whom he or she is speaking |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines, often about love |
| symbolism | expressing the invisible by means of visible representations |
| third person | referring to anything or to anyone other than the speaker or the ones being addressed |
| tone | the character of voice expressing an emotion |
| viewpoint | the circumstances of an individual that create an attitude |
| voice | expression in spoken or written words |
| archetype | a constantly recurring symbol or motif in literature |
| omniscient | having very great or seemingly unlimited knowledge |
| oxymoron | a device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect |
| paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
| pathetic fallacy | a form of personification, this poetic practice of giving human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals |
| standard english | the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people |
| stereotype | a commonly held popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals |
| symbolize | stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol |
| syntax | the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words |
| cliche' | anything that has become commonplace through overuse |
| iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five accents |
| metric feet | the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse |
| synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, as in the expression "hired hands" for workmen |
| antithesis | a figure of speech in which irreconcilable opposites ideas are placed in sharp and sustained tension |
| parallelism | the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect |
| scansion | the analysis and visual representation of a poem's metrical pattern. |
