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cadence
informal conversational language
juxtapose
Place side by side for contrast
evocative
Evoking strong feelings or memories
visceral
visceral
scansion
Metrical analysis of verse
caesura
Pause or break in a line of poetry
synecdoche
Figure of speech using part for whole
euphonious
Pleasing or harmonious to the ear
enjambment
Running lines into next line without pause
trochee
Metrical foot with stressed then unstressed syllable
assonance
# Simple English Synonyms/Definitions
personify
repetition of vowel sounds
dactylic
give human qualities to something
consonance
relating to a metrical pattern of three syllables
spondee
repetition of consonant sounds
onomatopoeia
metrical unit of two stressed syllables
mellifluous
words that imitate sounds
chiasmus
sweet-sounding
ethereal
reversal of grammatical structures for effect
apostrophe
light and airy