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| 9879278216 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work | 0 | |
| 9879278217 | apostrophe | an address to either an abstract person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage. | 1 | |
| 9879278218 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 2 | |
| 9879278219 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 3 | |
| 9879278220 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 4 | |
| 9879278221 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 5 | |
| 9879278222 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | a half-rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is different when pronounced | 6 | |
| 9879278223 | heroic couplet | two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth century verse. |  | 7 |
| 9879278224 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. |  | 8 |
| 9879278225 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than the end | 9 | |
| 9879278226 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker | 10 | |
| 9879278227 | metaphysical conceit | a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison. usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. | 11 | |
| 9879278228 | mock heroic | imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. served as a response to the deluge of epic, pastoral, heroic poems that were being written in the 17th century. | 12 | |
| 9879278229 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style. | 13 | |
| 9879278230 | Petrarchan conceit | especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets; hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object. | 14 | |
| 9879278231 | 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. | 15 | |
| 9879278232 | sestet | a six line stanza | 16 | |
| 9879278233 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme. | 17 | |
| 9879278234 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. | 18 | |
| 9879278235 | villanelle | a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19. | 19 | |
| 9879278236 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give the feeling of balance. | 20 | |
| 9879278237 | Static Character | A character that does not change throughout the story. | 21 | |
| 9879278238 | Dramatic Irony | Technique in which the author lets the audience in on a character's situation while the character remains uninformed. | 22 | |
| 9879278239 | Hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist. | 23 | |
| 9879278240 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase used in informal/everyday conversation. | 24 | |
| 9879278241 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 25 | |
| 9879278242 | Foreshadowing | Hints or clues about the end of the novel. | 26 | |
| 9879278243 | Epistolary Novel | the narrative is conveyed by means of letters from one character to another. | 27 | |
| 9879278244 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words. | 28 | |
| 9879278245 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme. | 29 | |
| 9879278246 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. | 30 | |
| 9879278247 | Malapropism | A general term for the misuse of words, especially words that sound like other words. | 31 | |
| 9879278248 | Dialect | A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain group. | 32 | |
| 9879278249 | Dystopia | A work of literature that projects a future world, state, or situation in which the human condition is wholly degraded. | 33 | |
| 9879278250 | Metonymy | Substitution of the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself. | 34 | |
| 9879278251 | Paradox | A self-contradictory statement that actually contains some truth. | 35 | |
| 9879278252 | Apostrophe | Calling out to an object or an abstract idea. | 36 | |
| 9879278253 | Elegy | A lament over someone's death. | 37 | |
| 9879278254 | Motif | a recurring image, word, or idea throughout a work. | 38 | |
| 9879278255 | Free Verse | A broadly descriptive term for poetry that does not follow a regular metrical pattern or rhyme scheme. | 39 |
