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| Repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry. |
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| A reference, explicit or implicit,to something in previous literature or history. |
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| A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person,or an inanimate object or idea is directly addressed as though alive, capable of understanding, and replying. It is frequently used in patriotic poetry, or when a poet addresses some glorious leader of the past to invoke his interest in the present. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds to create an internal rhyming within lines. |
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| A term used in poetry to denote an audible pause that breaks up a line of verse. Usually indicated by punctuation marks which cause a pause such as a comma, semicolon, a full stop. a dash etc.. |
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| A stylistic device, most commonly used in poetry and songs, characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession as in "pitter patter". Alliteration is a special case of consonance. |
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| A term in poetry to show that a line has expressed a complete thought. The line will end with punctuation that indicates a completed thought such as a semicolon or period. |
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| Use of run-on lines which carry the completion of a statement from one line to another without rhetorical pause. |
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| A figure of speech in which conscious exaggeration is used without the intent of literal persuasion. It may be used to heighten effect or it may be used to produce comic relief. |
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| A figure of speech in which two unlike objects, or ideas are compared to one another. |
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| Figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name but, by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. |
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| A literary term used to describe a new word that a poet has created. The new word is usually meant to draw attention to the meaning the poet is trying to convey. |
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| A figure of speech which words or combinations of words imitate sounds. |
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| A figure of speech which combines two contradictory terms. Oxymoron is used poetically to express religious mysteries which seem to be beyond human understanding. |
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| A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, and inanimate objects with human traits or characteristics. |
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| The pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. In other words, it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines. |
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