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| 13891761838 | antithesis | figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes." Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. | 0 | |
| 13891845481 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. | 1 | |
| 13891860423 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 2 | |
| 13891922266 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays, as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost. | 3 | |
| 13891940302 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause. | 4 | |
| 13891948517 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. A conceit may be a brief metaphor, but it also may form the framework of an entire poem. | 5 | |
| 13891967515 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson. The distinction between didactic poetry and non-didactic poetry is difficult to make and usually involves a subjective judgement of the author's purpose on the part of the critic or the reader. | 6 | |
| 13891983930 | elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. | 7 | |
| 13892008263 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. Its opposite is cacophony. | 8 | |
| 13892049872 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 9 | |
| 13892067095 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. | 10 | |
| 13892082732 | lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. Love lyrics are common, but lyric poems have also been written on subjects as different as religion and reading. | 11 | |
| 13892094910 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. | 12 | |
| 13893010951 | metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. In this way we commonly speak of the king as the "crown," an object closely associated with kingship. | 13 | |
| 13893054975 | spondaic | / / | 14 | |
| 13893095650 | pyrrhic | u u | 15 | |
| 13893117189 | dactylic | / u u | 16 | |
| 13893127506 | anapestic | u u / | 17 | |
| 13893138337 | trochaic | / u | 18 | |
| 13893174668 | iambic | u / | 19 | |
| 13893390451 | quatrain | a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes. | 20 | |
| 13893401334 | rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets. | 21 | |
| 13893507011 | terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc,etc. Dante's Divine Comedy is written in terza rima. | 22 | |
| 13893530406 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. The villanelle uses only two rhymes which are repeated as follows: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. Line 1 is repeated entirely to form lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated entirely to form lines 9, 15, and 19; thus, eight of the nineteen lines are refrain. | 23 |
