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- Alliteration
- The repetition of an initial consonant sound or consonant cluster in consecutive or closely positioned words
- Assonance
- the repetition of identical or near identical stressed or vowel sounds in words whose final consonance differ producing half rhyme
- Consonance
- the repetition of final consonants in words or stressed syllables whose vowel sounds are different
- Dactyl
- A three syllable foot following the rythmic pattern of one stressed followed by tow unstressed syllables. Example: Oregon ))
- Trochee
- A two syllable foot following the pattern in English verse of stressed followed by unstressed syllable
- Anapest
- A three-syllable foot following the rhythmic pattern of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed. Example: Illinois
- Metaphor
- The identification or implicit identification of one thing with another which is not literally identifiable. "And the hapless soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down Palace walls
- Oxymoron
- Conjunction of normally incompatible terms
- Personification
- The attribution of human qualities to nonhuman forces or objects
- Anaphora
- The repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences, clauses, or phrases
- Symbol
- Something that stands for something else and yet seems necessarily to evoke that other thing.
- Rhyme
- The repetition of identical vowel sounds in stressed syllables whose initial consonants differ. In poetry, rhyme often links the end of one line with another.
- Denotation
- A word has a basic factual meaning prior to the associations it connotes. For example, the word steed might call to mind a horse fitted with battle gear, but its denotation is simply "horse".
- Connotation
- While many words can denote the same concept-that is, have the same basic meaning-those words can evoke different associations, or connotations. Contrast, for example, the term "depression" with the more colorful phrase "The blues"
- Sonnet
- A form combining a variable number of units of rhymed lines to produce a fourteen line poem usually in rhyming iambic pentameter lines
- ode
- A lyric poem in elevated or high style often addressed to a natural force, a person, or an abstract quality.
- iamb
- The basic foot of English verse; two syllable following the rhythmic pattern of unstressed followed by stressed and producing a rising effect. Example: Vermont