Literary Devices

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Alliteration

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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of a word.

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Allusion

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Reference to someone or something famous.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in a poem, often creates Near Rhyme.

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Ballad

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A lively storytelling poetry form, often narrative set to music, plot-driven, moving quickly through critical events.

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Blank Verse

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Regular meter, usually iambic pentameter, no rhyme.

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Canto

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Major division of an epic or other long narrative poem.

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in words, not just at the beginning.

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Epic

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A long poem from ancient tradition, narrating heroic adventures or a nation's history.

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A repeated sequence of meter with accented or unaccented syllables.

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Free Verse

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No repeating patterns, no rhyming, very conversational.