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| metaphor | comparison of two unlike object |
| personification | attributing human qualities to a non-human thing or idea |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| simile | comparison of two unlike objects using the words like or as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words |
| antithesis | direct opposite; contrast of ideas |
| assonance | resemblance of a vowel sound in words or syllables |
| meter | a systematically arranged rhythm in verse |
| foreshadowing | foreboding; hinting at something before it happens |
| rhyme | two or more words that end in the same sound |
| symbol | a representation of something else |
| imagery | sensory details that create word pictures |
| irony | the opposite of what is expected; usually humorous or sardonic |
| foot | basic unit of verse meter consisting of any of various fixed combinations of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| iamb | metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed |
| dactyl | metrical foot consisting of one stressed and two unstressed syllables |
| anapest | metrical foot constisting of two unstressed syllable followed by one stressed |
| trochee | metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed |
| consonance | recurrance of consonant sounds in words |
| rhyme scheme | arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem |
| couplet | two rhyming lines |
| sestet | a stanza or peom of 6 lines |
| octave | the first 8 lines of an Italian sonnet |
| quatrain | unit or group of 4 lines of verse |
| oxymoron | combination of contradictory words |
| palindrome | reads the same forward or backward |
| ballad | story poem |
| lyric | short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker |
| sonnet | 14 line poem usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes |
| ode | lyric poem of some length usually of a serious or meditative nature, written with an elevated style |
| elegy | a formal poem that laments the death of a friend or public figure, or occasionally, a meditation on death itself |
| free verse | verse composed of variable, usually unrhyme lines having no fixed metrical pattern |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| acrostic | poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence |
| approximate rhyme | rhyme that is not pure repetition |
| refrain | a regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song |
| apostrophe | a direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality or idea |
| haiku | compact form of Japanese poetry written in lines of five, seven, ad five syllables respectively |
| limerick | faciful 5-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme in which the first, second, and fifth lines have three feet, and the third and fourth have two feet |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within lines of poetry |
| onomatopoeia | the sound of words indicates the meaning of the words |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word |
| connotation | the feeling that a reader perceives as the meaning of a word |
| epic | long narrative poem |
| allusion | reference to a person, place, etc. in or outside of literature |
| flashback | a break in the action to tell a past action |
| pun | play on words |
| point of view | perspective from which tale is told |
| metonymy | the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related or a part |
| synecdoche | figure of speech in which the part is used for the whole or the whole for a par |
