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| 8365919201 | Blank verse | Poetry that has a formal rhythmic pattern, but no regular rhyme scheme | 0 | |
| 8365919202 | Heroic couplet | A traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter | 1 | |
| 8365919203 | Cadence | The rhythmic pace or rising and falling of a line of poetry | 2 | |
| 8365919204 | Caesura | A break or pause in the middle of a line of poetry | 3 | |
| 8365919205 | Dirge | A lyric poem or song commemorating a death | 4 | |
| 8365919206 | Conceit | A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate extended metaphor | 5 | |
| 8365919207 | Elegy | A mournful, melancholic, or plaintive poem, often written about one who is parted or dead | 6 | |
| 8365919208 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line of the verse | 7 | |
| 8365919209 | Allusion | A figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference | 8 | |
| 8365919210 | Foot | A unit of measure consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables | 9 | |
| 8365919211 | Fable | A brief story illustrating a moral which often includes talking animals or animated objects as principal characters | 10 | |
| 8365919212 | Trochee | A metrical unit consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable | 11 | |
| 8365919213 | Lyric | A short poem expressing the speaker's emotions or internal thoughts | 12 | |
| 8365919214 | Measure | A metrical grouping that forms a unit | 13 | |
| 8365919215 | Parallelism | A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure | 14 | |
| 8365919216 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in which a single character narrates a story | 15 | |
| 8365919217 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 16 | |
| 8365919218 | Quatrain | A verse or group of four lines of poetry, usually with a unifying rhyme scheme. | 17 | |
| 8365919219 | Sestet | A verse or group of six lines of poetry that rhyme with a varying pattern; used for the last six lines of Italian sonnets. | 18 | |
| 8365919220 | Octave | A verse or group of eight lines of poetry with a unifying rhyme scheme; used for the first eight lines of Italian sonnets. | 19 | |
| 8365919221 | Leitmotif | A recurring device loosely linked with a character, setting, or event which alerts the audience to a continuing association or theme | 20 | |
| 8365919222 | Scansion | The act of determining the metrical character of a line of verse | 21 | |
| 8365919223 | Parody | A composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally for comic effect and often by applying that style to an outlandish or inappropriate subject | 22 | |
| 8365919224 | Volta | A turn or shift of thought in a poem, in which the speaker makes a change in argument or outlook | 23 | |
| 8365919225 | Apostrophe | The direct address of an absent person, an object, an animal, or an abstract idea | 24 |
