Poetry terms 1-10

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alliteration

the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds normally at the beginning of words

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allusion

a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work especially to a well known historical or literary event person or work.

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antithesis

a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words clauses sentences or ideas

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apostrophe

the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

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assonance

the repetition of identical or similar vowel words

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ballad meter

a 4 line stanza with abcb rhyme

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blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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cacophony

loud group of sounds

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censura

a pause unusually near the middle of a line of verse

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conceit

an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception expressed through analogy’s