Poetic Techniques
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| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
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| Allusion | A reference to another text, song, work of art, or historical event within a poem or story
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| Couplet | A pair of rhyming lines in a poem that usually share one idea
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| Figurative Language | Language where the writer conveys meaning in unexpected ways and through the use of unusual comparisons. Words have a meaning different from their literal meaning.
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| Hyperbole | An exaggerated expression used for dramatic or comic effect
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| Idiom | A figure of speech that cannot be taken literally
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| Imagery | Language that describes something using words to create a sensory image
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| Irony | When something happens that is the opposite of what is expected
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| Metaphor | Compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
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| Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and a poem
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| Onomatopoeia | A word that mimics the sound it represents
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| Oxymoron | A contradiction in terms
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| Personification | Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate non-living things
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| Rhymes | Two or more words with the same or similar sounds
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| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of the rhyme in a poem (For example, ABAB, ABCB, etc.)
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| Simile | Compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
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| Stanzas | A division or section of a poem (Like paragraphs in prose)
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