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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    RepetitionRepetition often uses word associations to express ideas and emotions indirectly, emphasizing a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion. Rhyme–Rhyme uses repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.

  3. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically found at the end of a verse line. Assonance (aka vowel rhyme): the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. [1] Broken rhyme: a type of enjambment producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line

  4. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis. It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech .

  5. Anaphora (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Other than the function of emphasizing ideas, the use of anaphora as a rhetorical device adds rhythm to a word as well as making it more pleasurable to read and easier to remember. Anaphora is repetition at the beginning of a sentence to create emphasis. Anaphora serves the purpose of delivering an artistic effect to a passage.

  6. Parallel syntax - Wikipedia

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    The first known instances of parallel syntax can be traced back to Aristotle in his book Rhetoric. [11] Aristotle underlines the fact that it is very useful in persuasion to pair multiple sentences, each with very similar clauses and phrases to the point that they are equal or nearly equal in syllable count; Aristotle perfected this art by creating various examples to be cited in a very ...

  7. Incremental reading - Wikipedia

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    Introduction to incremental reading by SuperMemo 15 Freeware Using incremental reading with an Anki add-on: extracting a portion out of an article and creating a cloze deletion. Incremental reading is a software-assisted method for learning and retaining information from reading, which involves the creation of flashcards out of electronic ...

  8. Prose poetry - Wikipedia

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    Prose poetry is written as prose, without the line breaks associated with poetry. However, it makes use of poetic devices such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, rhyme, [1] metaphor, and figures of speech. [2] Prose can still express the lyricism and emotion of poetry, and can also explore many different themes.

  9. The Snowstorm - Wikipedia

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    The effectively repeated motifs of the snow and wind amount almost to the incremental repetition of a folk ballad." [ 8 ] Ejxenbaum finds "The Snowstorm" notable for its plot arrangement, the weaving together of reality and dreams, rather than its fabula (story line).