front 1 Iambic Pentameter | back 1 A line of poetry made up of five iambics. An iambic is a metrical fret, a unit off measure, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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front 2 Imagery | back 2 Language that appeals to the five sense, especially to the sense of sight.
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front 3 Irony (situational) | back 3 Where what happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen.
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front 4 Irony (verbal) | back 4 Where what is said is the opposite of what is really meant, sarcasm
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front 5 Metaphor | back 5 A direct comparison of two unlike things
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front 6 Simile | back 6 A comparison of two unlike things that use "like" or "as" in the comparison
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front 7 Paralleslism | back 7 The use of similar or complementary grammatical contributions to the ideas that are related or equal in importance. Parallel elements may include words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs. This is a form of repetition.
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front 8 Personification | back 8 the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
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front 9 Soliloquy | back 9 A long speech in a play in which a character, who is usually alone on stage, expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings.
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front 10 Symbol | back 10 Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.
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front 11 Free Verse | back 11 poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme or line length. It relies on the natural rhythms of everyday speech |
front 12 Hyperbole | back 12 A figure of speech that uses exaggeration, and through a comic effect, expresses strong emotion.
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front 13 Diction | back 13 An authors word choice
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front 14 Connotation | back 14 All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests
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front 15 Aphorism | back 15 A concise, sometimes witty, saying that expresses a principle, truth or observation about life
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front 16 Allusions | back 16 A reference rom art, history, the bible, mythology, literature, pop culture, etc. that the speaker or writer assumes the audience will understand |
front 17 Alliteration | back 17 Where the same consonant sounds are repeated in close proximity to each other. This occurs most often at the beginning of words
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front 18 Foreshadowing | back 18 The use of clues that hint at what is going to happen later in a work. Usually focuses on situations off importance to the plot
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