A common type of character, action or situation that represents a common pattern.

Combination of words that do not seem to go together.

Means all knowing, in writing it’s a type of third person point of view where narrator seems to be able to tell you the thoughts and feelings of all characters

Similar to personification, but gives human emotions to nonhuman objects.

A statement that fights against itself because it contains two statement that are both true, but cannot be true at the same time.

When you use an image, shape, color, or other simple visual to stand for something else.

A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable,

Very common phrases/ideas that are used too much.

Rules words must follow so they can be put together in order to create sentences.

An unfair belief that all people or things that have a certain characteristic are a certain way

A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.

Two opposite ideas put together.

Use elements in sentences that are identical in sound and meaning.

A figure of speech in a piece/part of something is used to represent the whole thing.

When you scan a verse in a poem to try to figure out its meter and rhythm. Similar to how you annotate a text with special markings, scansion is how you annotate a poem with special markings for meter and rhythm

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