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Figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or non-human things thought to respond

Language that appeals to the senses

Kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.

Person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself. (lion stands for courage.)

repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them ithat are close together in a poem (blew and flew).

The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line verse into the next line without a pause (run-on).

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the text.

Rhymed on the teminal syllables of the verses at the end.

A line ending ina full pause, often indicated by appropriate punctuation such as a period or semicollon.

A pause or break in the poetry.

A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (TYger TYger BUrning BRIght)

The repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses (Having no light! Having no fire!)

A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform.

A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain characteristics are exaggerated to create a comic.

The imitation of a work of literature, art or music for amusement or instruction.

A play of the multiple meanings of words, or two words that sound alike but have two different meanings.

A comparison of two things that show thats they are alike in certain aspects. (creating a work of art and giving birth to a baby)

A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things.

like or as

i am a sunny day

A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work

Whale-road

A poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost

A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society

A character who sets off another character by strong contrast

Saying less than what is necissary.

the attitude a writer takes towards an ausience, a subject, or a reader.

A literary movement that began in France during the late 19 century and advocated the use of personal symbols to suggest ideas emotions mood

A story in which the characters, settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts.

An apparent contradiction that is actually true.

story within a story

meaning is different from what is said

Difference between expected result and actual result.

when the audience knows something that the speaker doesnt

The repitition of words, phrases, or sentenses that have the same grammatical structure or restate a similar idea..

The repition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. (face and fade)

The repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowl sounds. (tuRN and buRN)

The repitition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. (BaBy Blue)

Literally tells about ones life

Characters thoughts, actions, and interractions tell who the person is.