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slant rhyme
two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common (such as stopped and wept)
realism
an attempt to offer an accurate and detailed portrayal of actual life
repetition
use of a repeted sound/phrase
cataloging
collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list form within poetry or prose.
free verse
Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech
style
how the author chooses to write their piece in a particular style and manner
parallelism
the repetition of grammatical elements in a piece of writing to create a harmonious effect (similiar pattern repeated in a sentence)
tone
how the author/speaker sounds in a piece
audience
who the author intends their work to be targeted for
dash
Dickinson used a lot of these, ability to create silence within the poem, forcing the reader to stop and take a break wherever one occurs,
form
how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem
diction
word choice by the author
Frederick Douglass
was a former slave, became free because of his friend’s help, wrote “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” publsihed lots of works and his own newspaper
Harriet Jacobs
was a slave who wrote about her time in slavery using code names for the real people that in her life, wrote “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” where she tried to help her kids by escaping but ended up making matters worse
Abraham Lincoln
wrote the “Gettysburg Address” and the “Emancipation Proclomation” used repetition, parrellism and diction a lot in his works
Ambrose Bierce
Wrote the short story “An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,” used realism, model his works after Edgar Allen Poe, story mainly consists of a man who was supposed to be hanged but then escaped, then the readers see it was a federal scout who mislead him, then we the readers see that it was an allusion and Farquah ended up dead.
Whitman
postive/optimist, loved nature and its elements, had transcedentalist ideas
Dickinson
used lots of dashes in her work, lived in solitude, some of her works were happy some were sad, impowering ideas
