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| 5442479629 | elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. | 0 | |
| 5442485140 | a villanelle | a verse form of French origin consisting of 19 lines arranged in five tercets and a quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet recur alternately at the end of each subsequent tercet and both together at the end of the quatrain | 1 | |
| 5442486699 | an ode | a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion | 2 | |
| 5442486700 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 3 | |
| 5442489811 | soliloquy | an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with "To be or not to be.". | 4 | |
| 5442489812 | apostrophe | when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem. The speaker could be addressing an abstract concept like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea. | 5 | |
| 5442491995 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. | 6 | |
| 5442496882 | metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people." | 7 | |
| 5442499429 | onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound | 8 | |
| 5442501003 | couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length | 9 | |
| 5442502238 | spondee | a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter | 10 | |
| 5442503484 | iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable | 11 | |
| 5442503485 | quatrains | a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes | 12 | |
| 5442505802 | enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. | 13 | |
| 5442505803 | epitaph-VW | a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site | 14 | |
| 5442508678 | paradox | It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth | 15 | |
| 5442510424 | parallel structure | (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction | 16 | |
| 5442511686 | extended metaphor | a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem: Robert Frost uses two roads as an extended metaphor in "The Road Not Taken." | 17 | |
| 5442513136 | parody | a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing | 18 | |
| 5442514789 | logical fallacy | an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy. | 19 | |
| 5442516039 | invective- VW | vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach | 20 | |
| 5442517445 | parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. | 21 | |
| 5442517446 | jargon | the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 22 | |
| 5442519734 | elegiac- VW | expressing sorrow or lamentation | 23 | |
| 5442521368 | didactic | intended for instruction | 24 | |
| 5442521369 | epigrams | any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed | 25 | |
| 5442523712 | cacophony | harsh discordance of sound; hoots, cackles, and wails. | 26 | |
| 5442525065 | literary conceit | is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. | 27 | |
| 5442527010 | assonance | rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence. | 28 |
