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| apostrophe | direct adress to something inaminate or dead |
| sonnet | in Italian form, is 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| paradox | figure of speech that makes an apparently contradictory statement that is some way true |
| lyric poem | expresses emotions |
| personification | a figure of speech that gives qualitities of a human to that which is non-human |
| onomatopoeia | the techinque of using words that sound like their meaning |
| meter | the regular patterns of rhythm iambic- unstressed/stressed trochaic- stressed/unstressed anapestic- unstressed/unstressed.stressed |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| style | the way in which something is said; sentence length, diction, topics, themes, symbolism |
| allusion | a reference to an earlier literary work or to an historical event |
| metaphore | figure of speech compares dissimilar things directly |
| simile | figure of speech that compares dissimilar things, using like or as |
| consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds with different final vowel sounds |
| assonance | repetition of identical vowel sounds within words |
| alliteration | the reptition of identical consonant sounds within words that are in close proximity |
| aphorism | short pithy saying giving advise |
| pun | humorous use of a word where it can have different meanings or 2 or more words that have the same sounds but different meaning |
| conceit | extended metaphor; suprising, very clever and elaborately |
| blank verse | unrimed, imabic pentameter |
| tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, audience, or him or herself |
| figuartive language | language employing figures of speech; language that can not be taken literally |
| metered verse | true measurable reptition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry |
| allegory | narrative or description having a 2nd meaning beneath the surface one |
| diction | the language of a poem; word chose |
| symbol | figure of speech in which something means more than what it is |
| rhyme | repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words |
| metonymy | figure of speech w/ some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the while expereience |
| hyberbole | figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of the truth |
| structure | the internal organization of a poem's content; the enternal pattern or shape of a poem, describable w/o referrence to it's content |
| irony | situation, use of lang. involving some congruity or discrepance; verbal, situational, dramatic |
| free verse | nonmetrical poetry which the basic rhythmic wnit is the line, & natural speech rhythms replace metrical reagularity as a formal devise |
