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alliteration
same letter starts a series of words
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allusion
a reference to something outside of the story
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assonance
the same or similar vowel sound is repeated
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ballad
a poem or song that tells a story
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blank verse
poetry without rhyme but does follow iambic pentameter.
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consonance
the same consonant sound is repeated
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elegy
poem of mourning
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euphemism
making a word or phrase more polite
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free verse
poetry that is free from limitations
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hyperbole
statement that uses exaggeration to emphasize a point
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apostrophe
addressing an absent/deceased person or an inanimate object or personified thing
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metaphor
speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or thing that possess similar characteristics
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ode
a poem that usually praises something
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onomatopoeia
words used to represent a sound
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oxyymoron
contradictory words with opposite meanings used in conjuction
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paradox
a statement that contradicts itself but also contains truth
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personification
to give non-living things human traits
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simile
to describe something by comparing it to something else using “like” or “as”
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speaker
the voice of the writing/the narrator
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symbol
a person place or thing that stands for something else
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theme
the main idea that is said about the topic in
