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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonont sounds in words |
| allusion | a brief reference to a person, place or event |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds |
| connotation | the emotional associations surrounding a word |
| denotation | the strict, literal meaning of a work |
| epic | a long narrative poem dealing with heroes and adventures |
| free verse | a type of poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme |
| irony | a contrast of what appears to be and what really is |
| lyric poem | a poem based on feelings |
| narrrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| metaphor | implied comparison between two unlike things |
| simile | a direct comparison using like or as |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| oxymoron | two words that have opposite meanings put together and still make sense |
| personification | giving animals or inanimate objects human qualities |
| stanza | a paragraph in poetry |
| rhythm | the arrangements of stressed and unstressed sounds in patterns in writing |
| pun | play on words |
| mood | the atomosphere or emotional aura of a work |
| tone | the authors attitude toward his/her subject |
