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| allegory | a poem (story) whose characters, things, and happenings have another meaning |
| alliteration | repetition of stressed, initial sounds (consonants) of words |
| assonance | repetion of vowel sounds |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech involving great exaggeration |
| imagery | the use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that implies comparison between two different things |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| mood | the atmosphere and feeling that a writer creates in a work through the choice of evocative words |
| tone | the attitude of the writer towards mthe subject |
| stanza | divided sections of a poem |
| rhyme scheme | the rhyming pattern in a poem |
| rhythm (meter) | the pattern of stressed and unstressed (feet) syllables in a line of poetry |
| juxtaposition | the stating of two ideas, side by side, for basis of comparison |
| couplet | two consecutively rhyming lines |
| persona | the person or character in the poem |
| onomatopoeia | words that are used to imitate sounds |
| enjambment | running two lines of poetry together without punctuation |
| slant rhyme | two words that almost rhyme (beige and rage) |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that takes place within a line as opposed to the end of the line |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line verse |
| aside | short speech directed toward the audience, spoken by one character, as if thinking aloud |
| blank verse | iambic pentameter, 5 syllables to a line |
| context | social and historical influences on the author |
| prose | language in which, unlike poetry, there is no rhythm or rhyme |
| pun | a use of a word with two meanings |
| tragic hero | a character whose nobility or achievement we admire, and whose downfall and death through a weakness or error, coupled with fate, arouses our sympathy |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself, internally or out loud |
| dramatic monologue | single person, NOT the poet, makes a speech in the whole of the poem |
| monologue | a lengthy speech by a single person |
