Alliteration: repetition of consonants at the beginning of words (fat feline)

Alliteration

Repeating of consonants at the beginning of words
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Allusion

Suggested reference to another work of literature
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Apostrophe

Where the speaker speaks directly to something that is not a human
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Assonance

Repetition of a vowel
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Ballad

Stories in poetic form, usually about tragedy and usually are sung.
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Cacophony

Disagreement and friction
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Euphony

An agreeable combination of sounds
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Caesura

A pause inside a line of poetry that may affect the beats of the poem
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Conceit

An unlikely simile or metaphor a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two unrelated things
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Connotation/Denotation

Both of these are meanings of a word

Connotation is the suggested and accepted meaning of a word
Denotation is the dictionary meaning of a word

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Consonance

Repeating of consonant sounds
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Couplet

A stanza of two lines, rhyming most of the time
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Diction

Word choice and word usage in a work of literature
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Elegy

A lyric poem that is regretting death
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Didactic Literature

Literature designed plainly to instruct
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Epithet

A short quotation that appears at the beginning of a work of literature
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Euphemism

A mild word of phrase that takes the place of another that would be undesirable because it is too direct, insulting, or unlikable
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Foot

The primary form of measurement in a line of poetry
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Free Verse:

Unrhymed poetry that includes lines of varying lengths and contains no exact metrical pattern
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Figurative language:

A way of saying one thing and meaning something entirely different
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Figure of Speech:

States something that is not entirely true in order to create an effect
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Hyperbole:

Exaggeration; overstatement
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Iamb:

Literary pattern that includes one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
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Imagery:

A word or phrase that creates a picture or image for the reader to imagine
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Irony:

Something that the reader knows but the characters do not
Something that unexpectedly turns out contradictory or paradoxical
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Local Color:

A detailed setting forth of the characteristics of a particular locality, enabling the reader to "see" the setting.
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Lyric Poem:

A short poem wherein the poet expresses an emotion or illuminates some life principle
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Metaphor:

A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words "like" or "as."
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Meter:

A regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line or lines of poetry
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Metonymy:

A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests.
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Narrative Poem:

poem that describes an event without being biased or having feeling toward either side or degree of the event
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Ode:

A poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea.
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Paradox:

phrase that contradicts itself (cold fire, a short skyscraper)
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Personification:

giving human attributes to something that is not human
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Parallel Structure:

using the same sentence, grammatical, rhythm, or rhyme scheme, more than once in a literary work
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Rhyme:

pattern of repeated sounds (in poetry)
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Rhyme Scheme:

Schemes such as: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

Rhythm:

the flow to the poem, like iambic pentameter has the stressed-unstressed rhythm
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Scansion:

A close, critical reading of a poem, examining the work for meter.
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Simile:

A comparison using like or as
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Sonnet

Pattern that Shakespeare wrote in throughout all of his playwrights
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Symbolism:

The basic meaning of a word used to replace another word or idea in a work of literature
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Theme

The overall statement of the poem or work of literature
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Tone

The attitude or theme of a work of literature
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Understatement (litode):

Opposite of hyperbole
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Quatrain:

A four-line stanza which may or may not be in rhyme
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Enjambment:

The breaking of a linguistic unit (phrase, clause or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses.
It is in contrast with end stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with the line length.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment

Slant Rhyme-

Repetition of relative words that do not rhyme
http://openpoetry.com/SlantRhyme

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