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7850242670allusiona reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work0
7850253134apostrophean address to either an abstract person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage.1
7850262375blank verseunrhymed iambic pentameter2
7850267435cacophonya harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones3
7850271318didactic poema poem which is intended to teach a lesson4
7850276546enjambmentthe continuation from one line to the next with no pause5
7850286200eye rhyme/slant rhymea half-rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is different when pronounced6
7850291214heroic couplettwo rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth century verse.7
7850303012iambic pentameterfive sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.8
7850332129internal rhymerhyme that occurs within a line, rather than the end9
7850335090lyric poema short poem that presents a single speaker10
7857500865metaphysical conceita 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
7857520165mock heroicimitating 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
7857528627odea lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style.13
7857530525Petrarchan conceitespecially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets; hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object.14
7857538815refraina 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
7857542767sesteta six line stanza16
7857544338terceta stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme.17
7857546342terza rimaa three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc.18
7857550535villanellea 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

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