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| 8596493632 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God." | 0 | |
| 8596514516 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team"). | 1 | |
| 8596530188 | parallelism | a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. It can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated. Dr. King's famous 'I have a dream' repetition makes the speech compelling and rhythmic, as well as memorable. | 2 | |
| 8596571983 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 3 | |
| 8596582365 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 4 | |
| 9191139274 | apostrophe | when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in a poem. The speaker could be addressing an abstract concept like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea. | 5 | |
| 8596589228 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ). | 6 | |
| 8596594694 | refrain | a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a poem, usually after a stanza | 7 | |
| 8596613770 | tercet stanza | a stanza composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem | 8 | |
| 8729856628 | spondee | A metrical foot, a beat in a poetic line that consists of two accented syllables (stressed/stressed) or DUM-DUM stress pattern. Example: "Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go." | 9 | |
| 8729889816 | Blank verse | Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. | 10 | |
| 8753363869 | doggerel | comic verse composed in irregular rhythm; verse or words that are badly written or expressed. | 11 | |
| 8952383758 | diction | word choice | 12 | |
| 8952387586 | tone | provides the emotional coloring or a work and is a direct reflection of the speaker's attitude. | 13 | |
| 8952399690 | mood | the feeling the reader experiences as a result of the tone | 14 | |
| 8952405947 | figurative language | explains or expands an idea by making a direct comparison between unlike things | 15 | |
| 8952410581 | syntax | the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 16 | |
| 8952427996 | inversion | created by altering word order (e.g. in normal English grammar a subject is followed by a verb and its object). For example: "For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. | 17 | |
| 8952434118 | enjambment | when one line ends without a pause and must continue into the next line to complete its meaning; also called a run-on line | 18 | |
| 8952438110 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry | 19 | |
| 8952442226 | meter | lines in a poem of a regular pattern of rhythm; meters count the measures of a line in feet | 20 | |
| 8952445065 | feet | patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables | 21 | |
| 8952448045 | iamb | a poetic foot of two syllables with stress, or accent, on the second, such as the word "again," or the phrase "by far." | 22 | |
| 8952453473 | iambic pentameter | a line consisting of five iambic feet. For example: "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? | 23 | |
| 8953024523 | iambic tetrameter | a line consisting of four iambic feet | 24 | |
| 8953033829 | sound | the musical quality of a poem | 25 | |
| 8953037437 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables. | 26 | |
| 8953040091 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words or syllables | 27 | |
| 8953044316 | consonance | identical consonant sounds in nearby words that follow different vowel sounds | 28 | |
| 8953052025 | onomatopoeia | use of a word that refers to a sound and whose pronunciation mimics that sound | 29 | |
| 8953056045 | cadence | similar to rhythm, but focuses on the rise and fall of the voice | 30 | |
| 9051203554 | allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 31 | |
| 9051212717 | slant rhyme | Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or lazy rhyme or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. Example: Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off? | 32 | |
| 9085380431 | elegy | a contemplative poem, usually for someone who has died | 33 | |
| 9085381900 | lyric | a short poem expressing the personal thoughts or feelings of a first person narrator | 34 | |
| 9085383797 | ode | a form of poetry that meditates on or addresses a single object or condition. | 35 | |
| 9085387239 | villanelle | a form of poetry with five tercets (three-line stanzas) with a rhyme scheme of aba. | 36 | |
| 9085394682 | couplet | a two-line stanza | 37 | |
| 9085394683 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 38 | |
| 9085396164 | quintet | a five line stanza | 39 | |
| 9085399059 | sestet | a six line stanza | 40 | |
| 9085533753 | sextet | a seven line stanza | 41 | |
| 9085535917 | octave | an eight line stanza | 42 |
