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| Rhetorical question | A questions that is asked not for information nor to invite a reply |
| Understatement | The poet presents something as less significant than it really is |
| Poetic License | The liberty that the poet takes with grammar, f. of sp. or committing factual errors in order to strengthen a poem |
| Cliché | An expression such as "turn over a new leaf" that has been used so frequently it has lost its expressive power |
| Pun | A play on words that shows the similarity in sound, not spelling, between 2 words with different meanings |
| Pathetic fallacy | The attribution of human feeling to a nonhuman object |
| Repetition of words/phrases | The poet's "reuse" of certain words or phrases in a poem |
| Epithet | An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing |
| Devices | The typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages so that readers better understand his/her message |
| Symbolism | The use of ideas and themes which represent real things |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words |
| Irony | The poet expresses a figurative meaning different from or contrary to the literal meaning |
