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| 4091059742 | zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ). |  | 0 |
| 4091062869 | metonomy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). |  | 1 |
| 4091064195 | synedoche | Figure of speech in which a part of something is meant to represent a whole "all hands on deck" |  | 2 |
| 4091067285 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") |  | 3 |
| 4091068956 | ceasura | A distinct pause within a line of verse, often near the center. |  | 4 |
| 4091070193 | anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. MLK used anaphora in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech (1963). |  | 5 |
| 4091074209 | epistrophe | A device in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Example: "I believe we should fight for justice. You believe we should fight for justice. How can we not, then, fight for justice?" |  | 6 |
| 4091075654 | heroic couplet | A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style |  | 7 |
| 4091078812 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |  | 8 |
| 4091079791 | Petrarchan sonnet | A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6). There is a "volta," or "turning" of the subject matter between the two. (also called Italian sonnet) |  | 9 |
| 4091091311 | Elizabethan sonnet | A type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. |  | 10 |
| 4091093015 | villanelle | A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas --five tercets and a concluding quatrain. Examples include Bishop's "One Art," Roethke's "The Waking," and Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." |  | 11 |
| 4091093807 | ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |  | 12 |
| 4091094274 | conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor |  | 13 |
| 4091096320 | ode | a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter |  | 14 |
| 4091097373 | apostrophe | A poem that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. |  | 15 |
| 4091111265 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |  | 16 |
| 4091111735 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |  | 17 |
| 4091114005 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 18 |
| 4091114605 | parallel structure | Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. |  | 19 |
| 4091121877 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables--running, gunning; properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed |  | 20 |
| 4091123183 | frame narrative | a story that encloses one or more separate stories. (the frame is a vehicle for the stories it contains) |  | 21 |
| 4091124431 | epistolary novel | A novel composed wholly or primarily of letters. Unfolds through the written documents passed from person to person. |  | 22 |
| 4091313829 | tetrameter | A verse line having four metrical feet |  | 23 |
| 4091315190 | tone | Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices) |  | 24 |
| 4091325464 | litotes | (pronounced almost like "little tee") - a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Litote is the opposite of hyperbole. Examples: "Not a bad idea," "Not many," "It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain" (Salinger, Catcher in the Rye). |  | 25 |
| 4091352045 | periodic sentence | A sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase; sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end |  | 26 |
| 4091354654 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |  | 27 |
| 4091357304 | formal diction | Consists of a dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language; it follows the rules of syntax exactly and is often characterized by complex words and lofty tone. |  | 28 |
| 4091359434 | allusion | A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. |  | 29 |
| 4091363299 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |  | 30 |
| 4091463564 | syntax | Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences |  | 31 |
| 4091464782 | dependent clause | This clause contains a noun and a verb but is set up with a subordinate conjunction, which makes the clause an incomplete thought. Because the magician's rabbit refused to come out of the hat... |  | 32 |
| 4091466012 | independent clause | A clause that can stand alone as a sentence; it must have a noun and a verb (subject and predicate) |  | 33 |
| 4091467629 | synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 34 |
| 4091468431 | eye rhyme | occurs when words are spelled the same and look alike but sound differently. ex. move, love / shove, grove / tear, fear |  | 35 |
| 4091474423 | half rhyme | Half rhyme is one of the major poetic devices. It is also called an imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme, near rhyme or oblique rhyme. It can be defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. |  | 36 |
| 4091505096 | stanza | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |  | 37 |
| 4091505561 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. |  | 38 |
| 4091505941 | speaker | the narrator of a poem; not to be confused with the poet who wrote the poem. |  | 39 |
| 4248435056 | anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable |  | 40 |
| 4248436803 | trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |  | 41 |
| 4248439029 | dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables |  | 42 |
| 4253844566 | bildungsroman | A coming of age story |  | 43 |
| 4253852245 | picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction |  | 44 |
| 4293644475 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. Hemingway and the Bible both use extensively. Ex. "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy" |  | 45 |
