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Alliteration
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Repeated consonant sounds.
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Allusion
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Indirect reference to history, myth, literature, etc.
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Assonance
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Repeated vowel sounds.
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Ballad
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Short, narrative poem, often with surprise ending.
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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Pause/break in line of verse.
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Couplet
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A pair of rhymed lines.
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Diction
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Word choice
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End Rhyme
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Identical sounds at end of lines.
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Enjambment
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The continuation of 1 verse line into the next verse line.
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Epic
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Long, narrative poem with a heroic theme.
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Foot
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Unit of rhythm in a verse.
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Free Verse
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A verse without a set rhyme or structure.
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Imagery
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Choice of sensory descriptions in a verse.
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Kenning
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2-word metaphorical name for something
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