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| 4308254950 | Aphorism | A short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment | 0 | |
| 4308258342 | Apostrophe | When the speaker addresses someone or something that isn't present | 1 | |
| 4308271381 | Assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose | 2 | |
| 4308273987 | Burlesque | A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation | 3 | |
| 4308275489 | Cacophony | Grating, inharmonious sounds | 4 | |
| 4308282194 | Conceit | A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language | 5 | |
| 4308285193 | Elegy | A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value | 6 | |
| 4308288537 | Eulogy | A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, usually someone who has just died. | 7 | |
| 4308302463 | Enjambment | In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them | 8 | |
| 4308317546 | Euphony | Pleasing, harmonious sounds | 9 | |
| 4308317547 | Foot | A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line. | 10 | |
| 4308317548 | In medias res | "In the middle of things"--a Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events, but at some other critical point. | 11 | |
| 4308338121 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. | 12 | |
| 4308338122 | Oxymoron | A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect | 13 | |
| 4308347131 | Paradox | A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true | 14 | |
| 4308350125 | Irony | A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected | 15 | |
| 4308355539 | Satire | A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change | 16 | |
| 4308356941 | Scan | The act of determining the meter of a poetic line. | 17 | |
| 4308360592 | Dramatic Irony | A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character. | 18 | |
| 4308365277 | Situational Irony | When a character expects one thing to happen and something opposite happens | 19 | |
| 4308373358 | Verbal Irony | When someone says one thing but means another | 20 | |
| 4308393677 | Villanelle | A poem which consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. | 21 | |
| 4308406572 | Terza rima | A rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme | 22 | |
| 4308415727 | Italian Sonnet | A fourteen line poem with one octet and one sextet | 23 | |
| 4308531122 | English Sonnet | A fourteen line poem with three quatrains and one couplet | 24 | |
| 4308556477 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 25 |
