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| paradox | statement or situation containing apparentky contradictory or imcompatible elements |
| hyperbole | figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of the truth |
| understatement | figure of speech that conssits of saying less than one means or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrnats |
| irony | situation, or use of language involving some congruity or discrempancy; verbal, situational, dramatic |
| allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history |
| rhyme | repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeding sounds in imprtatnt or importantly positive words |
| approximate rime | words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes |
| refrain | repeated world, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanza form |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in sound |
| meter verse | true measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
| blank verse | unrimed iambic pentameter |
| free verse | nonmetrical postry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line and the natural apeech rhythms replace metrical reqularity as a formal devise |
| internal rime | rime in which one or both of the rime occur within the line |
| end rime | rime that occur at the ends of the line |
| assonance | repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words |
| alliteration | repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented or important words |
| symbol | a figure of speech in which something means more thatn what it is. a symbol may be read both literally and metaphorically |
| allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one |
| imagery | the representation through language of the sense experience |
| structure(form) | the internal organization of a poem's content; the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without referrance to its content |
| tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself, the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of a work |
| figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that can not be taken literally or only literally |
| simile | figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between 2 things essentially unlike. the comparison is made explicit by the use of soem such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems |
| metaphor | figure of speech in which an explict comparison is not expressed but is created when a figurative term is substituted for or identified with literal term |
| personification | figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept |
