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Metonymy

the name of one object for another with which it is closely associated

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Onomatopoeia

the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe

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Oxymoron

a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression

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Paradox

a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense

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Personification

a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

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Rime

similarity of sounds, usually at the end of lines

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Perfect Rime

identical sounds (dead/red)

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Rime Scheme

the riming pattern found in a poem

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Slant (Near, Off)

sounds that are close but not identical (down/then)

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Eye

words that look as if they sound alike (move/love)

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Sarcasm

a type of irony, often bitter (or nasty) whose purpose is to injure or hurt

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Sonnet

a fixed form of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter

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Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)

two-part structure consisting of an octave and sestet

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English (Shakespearean)

four-part structure consisting of three quatrains & a couplet

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Simile

a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as

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Symbolism

the use of one object which stands for something else

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Synecdoche

a form of metaphor which substitutes a part for the whole

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Understatement

the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.

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