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Literary Devices

Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words
Allusion: having more than one possible meaning
Ambiguity: a comparison based on a certain resemblances between things that are otherwise unlike
Blank Verse: unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter
Connotations: suggestions of emotional coloration that imply our attitude and invite a similar one fromout hearers
Dramatic Irony: an incongruity between what we expect and what actually happens
Extended Metaphor: a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by
Figures of Speech: An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way
Italian Sonnet: Divides poem into one section of eight lines and a second section of six lines.
Metaphor: the comparison is implicit, with something described as if it were something else
Plot: arrangement of action
simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
Sonnet: a fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter
stanza: a section of a poem marked by extra line spacing
symbol: something that represents something else
Theme: a statement about the subject of a poem