Literary Devices/Poetic Devices

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Definition of assonance?

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Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry

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Repetition of consonant sounds in poetry?

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Consonance

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Definition of alliteration?

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Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Term for sentence continuation over a line-break?

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Enjambment

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Definition of personification?

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Endowing animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics.

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Voice of the poem, may be the poet's or a character's.

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Speaker

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Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Onamonapia

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Expression that indirectly references something without mentioning it:

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Allusion

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Conscious exaggeration for heightened or comic effect

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Hyperbole

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Implied comparison between unrelated things, one tangible and one intangible.

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Metaphor