An ____ is the ____, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought somewhere within the poem. An ____ is the ____ at close intervals of vowel sounds for a purpose. For example: mad as a hatter. A ____ is a narrative poem that was originally meant to be ____. Ballads are generally about ordinary people who have unusual adventures, with a single tragic incident as the central focus. They contain dialogue and repetition, and imply more than they actually tell. A ____ is a harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a ____, ____ ____, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants such as b, d, g, k, p, and t; the opposite of EUPHONY. A ____ is the close repetition of ____ consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds. The ____ is the ____ of sense and grammatical structure in a poem beyond the end of one line, COUPLET, or STANZA and into the next. The ____ is any ____, ____ saying. Originally an epigram meant an inscription, or epitaph usually in verse, on a tomb. Later it came to mean a short poem that compressed meaning and expression in the manner of an inscription. An ____ is a succession of sweetly melodious ____; the opposite of CACOPHONY. The term is applied to smoothly flowing POETRY or PROSE. A ____ ____ is the pattern of end rhyme in a poem.

Literary Terms for Poetry

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