unseen poetry poetic language

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Simile
A comparison made using the words "like" or "as."
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Metaphor
A comparison- made directly or indirectly- without using "like" or "as"
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Personification
Giving human characteristics to something that isn't human
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Onomatopoeia
Words which attempt imitate sounds
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Alliteration
Repetition of constant sounds
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Plosive
"b", "p," "t" and "d" sounds- which can be harsh, aggressive or shocking
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Sibiance
Repeated "S" sounds- most often caused by "S" "**" and "C". these can be harsh, smooth or sickly
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Assonance
A repetition of vowel sounds
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Anaphora
A repetion of words, phrases or slauses
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Juxtaposition
Two things being placed close together for a contrasting effect.
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which contradictory things are placed together in a way which makes peculiar sense
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Semantic
A set of words relating to the same topic
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Antithesis
Placing contrasting ideas together
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Ambiguithy
A word, phrase or situation where there are two or more possible meanings and its unclear which is the correct one
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Anachronism
A person or object placed in an inappropriate time
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Cliche
An overused phrase or saying
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Hyerbyole
Exaggeration
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Irony
A use of words to mean something very different from what they appear to mean
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Litotes
Deliberate understatement for effect- the opposite of a hyperbole
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Metonymy
A related item or attribute to replace a word normally used
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Pathetic fallacy
When a charaters feelings, thoughts or emotions are displayed through the environment around them.
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Persona/ Narrative voice
The voice/speaker of the poem who is different from the writer
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Protagonist
The main character in the poem
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Rhyme
The repetition of syllable sounds- usually at the end of lines, but sometimes in the middle of a line
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Couplet
A pair of rhyming lines which follow on from one another
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Stanza
A group of lines separated from others in a poem
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Enjambment
The running over of a sentence from one line to the next without a piece of punctuation at the end of the line.
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Caesura
A stop or a pause in a line of poetry
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Blank verse
poetry written in non-rhyming, ten syllable lines
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Dramatic monologue
A poem in which an imagined speaker address the reader
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Elegy
A form of poetry which is about the death of its subject.
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End stopped
A line of poetry ending in a piece of punctuation which results in a pause
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Epigraph
A quotation from another text, included in a poem
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Lyric
An emotional, rhyming poem, most often describing the emotions caused bu a event
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Ode
A formal poem which is written to celebrate a person, place , object or idea
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Parody
A comic imitation of another writer's work.
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Quatrain
A four line stanza
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Sestet
A six line stanza
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sonnet
A fourteen line poem, with variable rhyme scheme , usually on the topic of love for a person, object or situation
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Free verse
Non-rhyming, non-rhythmical poetry which follows the rhythms of natural speed
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Volta
A turning point in the line of thought or argument in poem
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A comparison- made directly or indirectly- without using "like" or "as"

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Metaphor

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Giving human characteristics to something that isn't human

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Words which attempt imitate sounds

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Repetition of constant sounds

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