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| 293079316 | alliteration | repetition of initial sounds | |
| 293079317 | assonance | repetition of internal vowel sounds | |
| 293079318 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 293079319 | cadence | pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line; marked as two vertical lines in analysis | |
| 293079320 | conceit | elaborate or exaggerated metaphor; ingenious or witty thought | |
| 293079321 | connotation | associations or implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word | |
| 293079322 | couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines, usually with the same meter | |
| 293079323 | end-stopped line | poetic line that has a pause at the end, usually marked by punctuation | |
| 293079324 | enjambment | when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning; also called run-on line | |
| 293079325 | epic | long, narrative poem, told in a formal elevated style with a serious subject | |
| 293079326 | euphony | language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear, literally "good sound" | |
| 293079327 | foot | metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured, usually consists of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables | |
| 293079328 | iambic | one unstressed, one stress (away) | |
| 293079329 | trochaic | one stressed, one unstressed (lovely) | |
| 293079330 | anapestic | two unstressed, one stressed (understand) | |
| 293079331 | dactylic | one stressed, two unstressed (desperate) | |
| 293079332 | iamb | one unstressed, one stressed syllable | |
| 293079333 | measure | specified unit, such as a foot or a line | |
| 293079334 | quatrain | four-line stanza | |
| 293079335 | rhyme | repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, usually at the end of a line | |
| 293079336 | feminine | a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables (butter, clutter; gratitude, attitude; quivering, shivering) | |
| 293079337 | internal | places at least one of the rhymed words within the line (dividing and gliding and sliding) | |
| 293079338 | masculine | rhyming of single-syllable words (grade, shade); also in rhyming of words of more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable (defend, contend) | |
| 293079339 | scansion | process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical patter of the line | |
| 293079340 | sonnet | fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter | |
| 293079341 | Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | divided into an octave, typically abbaabba, and a sestet (possibly cdedce, cdcdcd, cdccdc); usually octabe presents a situation and the sestet comments or resolves | |
| 293079342 | English/Shakespearean sonnet | divided into three quatrains and a couplet, typically abab cdcd efef gg | |
| 293079343 | trochee | metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented (barter) | |
| 293079344 | volta | turn in the argument or mood of a sonnet, 9th line in Italian, couplet in English |
