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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds, especiailly at the beginning of words.
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Assonance
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The repetitionof similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.
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Couplet
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A pair of lines which may or may not end-rhyme expressing one clear thought.
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Foot
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A group of 2 or 3 stressed and understressed syllables.
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Imagery
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Figurative language used to create particular mental images
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Irony
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A contrast between expectation and reality
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Metaphor
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An association of two completely different objects as being the same thing.
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Meter
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The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
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Onomatopoeia
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"Sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean.
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Pentameter
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A line with 5 ft.; use of words therefore has 10 syllables ( often used by Shakespere).
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Personification
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Attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies.
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Repetition
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Used by poets to enforce a certain image, phrase, or sound.
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Rhyme Scheme
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A patter of words that sounds alike.
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Rhyme
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The matching of final vowel or cansonant sounds on two or more words (When this occurs at the end of lines it is called "end-rhyme," when it occurs within the lines it is called "internal rhyme,").
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Rhythm
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The recurrence of accent of stress in lines of verse; internal 'feel' of beat and the meter percieved when peotry is read aloud.
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