| A | B |
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| alliteration | repetition of sounds (ex: Oh wild west wind) |
| allusion | reference to a familiar thing or person |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants )ex: gilded monuments/ of princes shall outlive this... (vowel sound-- i) |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry, usually 10 syllables, five syllables stressed (ex: but SOFT! what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS? |
| connotation | non-dictionary definition |
| couplet | two secessive lines that form a single verse (ex: The which if you with patient ears attend/what here shall miss,our toil shall strive to mend/ |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| epic | long story-poem about someone famous (ex: oddessy) |
| figurative language | language not ment to be interpreted literally (ex: he went through the roof) |
| figure of speech | word/phrase that describes something in a way that isn't literally true (ex: simile,metaphor,personification,irony,symbol) |
| image | word/phrase which brings picture that appeals to the senses, to mind |
| irony | figure of speech where writer says something and implies teh opposite( ex: huck helps jim escape, and feels like he is comitting a sin...) |
| meter | organized rythmic pattern created by repetition of same foot , there are three common ones:anapestic (in-ter-VENE), dactylic(HIS-to-ry), iambic(de-FEND the HOUSE) |
| sonnet | lyric poem of 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter. |
