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Personification
a metaphor attributing human feelings to an object.
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Metaphor
a descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else
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Similie
a descriptive technique that compares one thing with another, usually using 'as' or 'like'
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Alliteration
The same letter at the beginning of a two or more of words close together. Usually used to stress something
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Rhyme
Word with endings that sounds similar to each other. Usually used to connect words
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Pathetic fallacy
a type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather
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Rhetorical question
A question that does not require an answer, designed to make people think. Example: "Do we want to pay more taxes?"
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Foreshadowing
a warning or indication of a future event
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Enjambment
The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
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Caesura/Ellipsis (in Greek and Latin verse)
A break between words within a metrical foot
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Dialectic
Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
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Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
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Conceit
An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
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Sonnet
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture
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Narrative
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story
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Assonance
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence)
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Anthropomorphism
The endowment of human characteristics to something that is not human
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sounds copies the thing or process they describe
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Point of view
A story can be told by one of the characters or from another point of view. The point of view can change from one part of the story to another when events are viewed through the minds of two or more characters
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Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhymes in a poem
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Satire
The highlighting or exposing of human failings or foolishness through ridiculing them. Satire can range from being gentle and light to extremely biting and bitter in tone
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Stanza
The blocks of lines into which a poem is divided. [Sometimes these are, less precisely, referred to as verses, which can lead to confusion as poetry is sometimes called ‘verse’]
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Symbol
Like the use of images, symbols present things which represent something else. In very simple terms, a red rose can be used to symbolise love; distant thunder can symbolise approaching trouble. Symbols can be very subtle and multi-layered in t
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Rhythm
The ‘movement’ of the poem as created through the meter and the way that language is stressed within the poem
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Syntax
The way in which sentences are structured. Sentences can be structured in different ways to achieve different effects
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Plot
The sequence of events in a poem, play, novel or short story that make up the main storyline
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Protagonist
The main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play or story
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Pun
A play on words that have similar sounds but quite different meanings
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Metre
The regular use of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry
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a descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else

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Metaphor

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a descriptive technique that compares one thing with another, usually using 'as' or 'like'

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The same letter at the beginning of a two or more of words close together. Usually used to stress something

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Word with endings that sounds similar to each other. Usually used to connect words

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