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gustatory imagery


 – the creation of an image of taste
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travel narrative


 – a narrative about a journey usually written by the person about his or her own journey
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limerick


  – a type of poem, usually humorous, consisting of five lines where the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. [..]
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occasional poem


 – lyric poetry written about an occasion
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atmosphere


 – the general feeling of the surroundings that is created in the work such as peaceful or tragic; slightly different from mood which is the emotional reaction in the reader to the atmosphere although [..]
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caesura


 – a pause or stop in the middle of a verse
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common measure


 – a ballad stanza generally rhyming in alternating pairs
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informal diction


 – the use words with slang, colloquialisms, and non-Standard English
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rising meter


 – movement from unstressed to stressed meter
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abstract words – words that do not refer to tangible, specific items
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