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Imagery
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Discribes words and phrases that re-create vivid sensory experiences for teh reader
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Alliteration
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Repitition of initial consonant sounds
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Denotation
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Literal or dictionary meaning
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Free verse
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Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter
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Personification
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Human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea
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Theme
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Central idea or message in a work of literature
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Simile
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Comparrison between 2 things that are actually unlike but have something in common (like, as)
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Meter
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Repitition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
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Connotation
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Emotional response evoked by a word, in contrast to its denotation
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Allusion
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Indirect reference to a historical or literary person, place, thing, or event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar with
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Symbol
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Person, place, or object that represents somehting beyond itself
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Paradox
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Contradictory or absurd statement that may nonetheless suggest an important truth
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Tone
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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject
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Metaphor
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Makes a comparison between 2 things that have something in common
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Sonnet
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Lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter
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