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1
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Diction

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Choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

2
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Dramatic monologue

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Speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events

3
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End stopped line

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Line ended with period or punctuation mark. When stopped it’s it’s own phrase — a pause

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Enjambment

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Moving over from one line to another without terminating punctuation mark

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Explication

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Process of analyzing and developing an idea or principle in detail

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Foot (prosody)

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Patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry

7
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Heroic couplet

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Stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

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Hymn meter or common measure

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Number of syllables for the lines in each stanza

9
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Hyperbole

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Overstatement, exaggerate in a great extent

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Iambic pentameter

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Line or verse with 5 metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable, for example two households, both alike in dignity

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Image

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Vivid mental pictures in the mind of readers