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  1. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  2. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  3. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  4. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  5. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  6. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  7. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  8. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  9. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  10. allegory
    a short moral story
  11. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  12. overstatement
    exaggeration of the importance or extent of something
  13. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  14. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  15. sarcasm
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  16. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  17. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  18. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  19. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  20. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  21. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  22. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  23. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  24. masculine
    (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
    rhyme involves one syllable
  25. feminine
    (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
    rhyme involves two or more syllables
  26. internal rhyme
    a rhyme between words in the same line
  27. end-rhymed
    rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
  28. refrain
    part of a song or poem that recurs at regular intervals
  29. rhythm
    an interval during which a recurring sequence occurs
  30. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  31. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  32. prose poem
    prose that resembles poetry
  33. meter
    rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
  34. truncation
    the act of cutting short
  35. scansion
    analysis of verse into metrical patterns
  36. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  37. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  38. synesthesia
    a sensation that occurs when a different sense is stimulated
Created on 三月 19, 2013 (updated 三月 21, 2013)

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