8491164544 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
8491164545 | anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 1 | |
8491164546 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 2 | |
8491164547 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 3 | |
8491164548 | Aside (n) | a line spoken by a character that other characters on stage cannot hear. | 4 | |
8491164549 | epic style | sustained elevation is used | 5 | |
8491164550 | Gothic style | Style of architecture developed to allow space for huge stained glass windows fro light | 6 | |
8491164551 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 7 | |
8491164552 | slant rhyme | two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly | 8 | |
8491164553 | invocation | the act of appealing for help | 9 | |
8491164554 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 10 | |
8491164555 | Polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 11 | |
8491164556 | Litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 12 | |
8491164557 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 13 | |
8491164558 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 14 | |
8493490719 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 15 | |
8493490720 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 16 | |
8493490721 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 17 | |
8493490722 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 18 | |
8493490723 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | 19 | |
8493490724 | cacophony | harsh sounds | 20 | |
8493490725 | eye rhyme | Words that look alike but do not rhyme at all | 21 | |
8493490726 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 22 | |
8493490727 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 23 | |
8493490728 | internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 24 | |
8493490729 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 25 | |
8493490730 | Scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 26 |
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