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Denotation
basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
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connotation
- Word suggests beyond basic dictionary definition
- overtones of meaning
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Symbol
object, person, situation, or action that means more that what it is, literally and metaphorically
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Allegory
Narrative of description having 2nd meaning beneath surface
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Tone
writer/speaker attitude toward subject
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Theme
central idea of literary work
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iamb
unstressed stressed U /
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Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic petameter
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Stanza
Group of lines with metrical pattern and repeated throughout poem
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quatrain
ballad stanza abcb or abab
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Sestet
- Italian sonnet
- 8 lines then 6 lines
- abc abc
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Rhyme scheme
Fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or stanzas
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Alliteration
repetition of initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (map-moon, kill-code)
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Consonance
repetition of final consonant sounds
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Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds of accented or important words
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Onomatopeia
boom pang zoom
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Simile
comparison between 2 things essentially unlike
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Metaphor
- comparison between 2 unlike things
- Literal and figurative both
- literal mentioned figurative implied
- literal implied figurative mentioned
- both implied
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Personification
human characteristics are given to animal, object, or concept
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Apostrophe
Dead, absent, non-existant person addressed as alive and would reply
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Oxymoron
Two words contradict each other
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Metonymy
detail of experience used to represent the whole experience
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Paradox
Statement of situation that has seemingly contradiction elements, but not really
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Allusion
Reference to something in literature or history
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Irony
- Verbal: opposite of what is said
- Dramatic: Implies different meaning from what is intended
- of Situation: incongruity between actual circumstances and those that seem appropriate or anticipated and what actually comes to pass
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Imagery
Representation through language of sense experience
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