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| 21712112 | Narrative Poem | A non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. Epics and Ballads are examples | |
| 21712113 | Octave | an 8 line stanza. first division of an Italian sonnet. | |
| 21712114 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggests their meanings. | |
| 21712115 | Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. this combo usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness. | |
| 21712116 | Paradox | a situation, action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. | |
| 21712117 | Parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line of poetry. | |
| 21712118 | Paraphrase | a restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. a often an amplification of the original for purpose of clarity. | |
| 21740877 | Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | |
| 21740878 | Poetic Foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it. the most common type of ___ are iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, pyrrhic, etc. | |
| 21745708 | Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. they can have serious or humorous uses. | |
| 21745709 | Quatrain | a 4 line stanza with any combination of rhymes | |
| 21745710 | Refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | |
| 21745711 | Rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse. the vowels in the accented syllables must be preceded by different consonants, such as fan and ran | |
| 21745712 | Rhyme Royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets | |
| 21745713 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. lends both pleasure and heightened emotional response to the listener or reader. | |
| 21745714 | Sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. | |
| 21745715 | Satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. | |
| 21745716 | Scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the types of feet per line. Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, etc. | |
| 21745717 | Sestet | a 6 line stanza. the second division of an italian sonnet. | |
| 21745718 | Similie | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than" | |
| 21745741 | Sonnet | normally a 14 line iambic pentameter poem. Rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde or abab cdcd efef gg | |
| 21745742 | Stanza | usually a repeated grouping or three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | |
| 21745743 | Strategy | the management of language for a specific effect. Planned placing of elements to achieve an effect. | |
| 21745744 | Structure | The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. The most common units of __ in a poem are the line and stanza. | |
| 21745837 | Style | the mode of expression in language, the characteristic manner of expression of an author. | |
| 21745838 | Symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. For example, winter, darkness, and cold are real things, but in literature they are also likely to mean death. | |
| 21745839 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. For example, we refer to "foot soldiers" and "field hands" for manual laborers who work in agriculture. | |
| 21745840 | Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | |
| 21745841 | Tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each line ends in the same rhyme | |
| 21745842 | Terza Rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba bcb cdc.. Dante's Divine Comedy is an example | |
| 21745843 | Theme | the main thought expressed by a work, in poetry the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work. | |
| 21745844 | Tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses the meaning. Described by adjectives.. | |
| 21745845 | Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole. it is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. | |
| 21745846 | Villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into 5 tercets and a final quatrain. Uses only 2 rhymes which are repeated aba, aba aba aba aba abaa |
