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Ode
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A lofty lyric poem on a serious theme. It may embody alternating stanza patterns called strophe, antistrophe, and the epode
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Elegaic lyric
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Expresses a speaker's feelings of loss, often because of the death of a friend or loved one
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Foot
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Rhythmical units that consist of some combination of weakly stressed and strongly stressed syllables
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Trochaic pentameter
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5 feet with a stressed/ unstressed pattern
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Iambic pentameter
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5 feet with a unstressed/ stressed pattern
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Internal rhyme
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Use of rhyming words within lines
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Slant rhyme
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(half rhyme, near rhyme, or off rhyme) the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme
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Consonance
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A kind of slant rhyme in which the ending consonant sounds of 2 words match, but the preseding vowel sound does not, as in "wind" and "sound"
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeration made for rhetorical effect
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Tenor
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The subject of a metaphor
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Vehicle
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Another thing to which the subject is likened in a metaphor
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Rhetorical technique
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An extraordinary but literal use of language to achieve a particular effect
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Antithesis
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A rhetorical technique in which words, phrases, or ideas are strongly contrasted, often by means of repetition of grammatical structures
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Chiasmus
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A rhetorical technique in which the order of occurence of the words or phrases is reversed, as in the traditional line: "We can weather changes, but we can't change the weather"
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"Sonnet XXX"
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Edna St. Vincent Millaylyrical Shakespearean sonnet: iambic pentametertheme: love (all you need is love)
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