Literary Devices in Poetry

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Alliteration in literature refers to the occurrence of the same letter or sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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

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Meaning of 'Allusion'

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Indirectly hints at something 'alludes' to

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Ambiguous:

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Obscure or unclear

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Anaphora describes:

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Repeated words/phrases at the start of a line.

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Assonance in poetry refers to resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, especially from rhyming stressed vowels, not consonants.

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Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels but not consonants.

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Caesura in poetry denotes:

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An indicated pause in the middle of the line.

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Connotations?

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Associations

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End stopped line in poetry?

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A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or comma.

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Enjambment in poetry refers to:

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Continuation of sentence or phrase over a line with no indicated pause/break.

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Iambic pentameter

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A rhythmic pattern of 10 syllables per line, alternating stressed and unstressed.