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Article: Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Glossary Of Literary Terms
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Glossary Of Literary Terms
Abstract. A word or a sentence is said to be abstract when it refers to
a general class of things or persons, or when it makes a statement about a
quality or a state of being, as opposed to a particular person or object.
Alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of a series of initial
consonants (i.e., consonants at the beginning of successive words or
syllables).
Assonance. Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds,
especially in stressed syllables.
Ballad. A ballad is a short poem-usually a song-which narrates a story.
The oldest ballads are folk ballads, which are anonymous and have been
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