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speaker
the voice in the poem; may be poet of character created by poet
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tone
attitude writer takes and subject, character, and readers
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mood
The prevailing mood or feeling of literary work
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denotation
literal or "dictionary" meaning of a word
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connotation
the emotion or associations that a word or phrase convey
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Imagery
Language that appeals to any sense of combination of senses: visual, sound, touch, smell, taste
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Figurative Language
not intended to be interpreted in literal sense
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metaphor
comparison between 2 unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one EXTENDED METAPHOR
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simile
compare between 2 dissimilar things through use of specific word of comparison using like or as
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oxymoron
a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms
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personification
animal, objected, natural force or idea given human characteristics
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apostrophe
a figure of speech in which an absent of dead person, an abstract quality, or something non-human is addressed directly
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Symbolism
object, person, place or action that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger that itself
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allusion
reference in one work of literature to a person place or ecen in another work of literature, history, art, music
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Rhyme
repetition of sound 2 or more words or that appear close to each other in poem: pattern of rhythm
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end rhyme
rhyme at the end of lines
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internal rhyme
rhyme occurs within a line
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Exact or Perfect
rhymes such as look, book and hear, near
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slant or approximate
rhyme in which final sounds of the words are similar, but not identical cook/lack
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Alliteration
repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants clusters in group of words
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assonance
repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together in group of words
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consonance
repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words
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onomatopoeia
use of word whose should in some degree imitates or suggest its meaning
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Rhythm
arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern
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meter
a general regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern
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Iambic Pentameter
most common verse line in English poetry. Fie verse feet with each foot and Iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)
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sonnet
14 line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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Shakespearean Sonnet
14 lines lyric poem with 3 quatrains and couples ( ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)
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Petrarchan or Italian sonnet
14 lyric poem with 2 parts: octave and sestet
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Spenserian sonnet
14 line lyric poem (ababbcccdcdee)
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Pastoral poetry
a type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life
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anti-pastoral
realistic tone; opposite of idealized pastoral
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free verse
poetry with no fixed meter or pattern that depends on natural speech rhythms
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