Alliteration - the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words, Kenning - a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship, Assonance - resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled), Caesura - (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot. — (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line, Rhyme - correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry, Rhythm - the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables, Refrain - a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse, Consonance - the recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity, especially in prosody, Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ),

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