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| 293477990 | stanza | A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. | 0 | |
| 293477991 | couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit. | 1 | |
| 293477992 | heroic couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer | 2 | |
| 293477993 | meter | The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line. | 3 | |
| 293477994 | rhyme | Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. | 4 | |
| 293477995 | blank verse | Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter. | 5 | |
| 293477996 | free verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. | 6 | |
| 293477997 | near/half/slant rhyme | Rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly. | 7 | |
| 293477998 | eye/sight rhyme | A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, e.g., love and move. | 8 | |
| 293477999 | rhyme scheme | The ordered pattern of rhymes. | 9 | |
| 301847782 | tercet | A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. | 10 | |
| 301847783 | quatrain | A stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes. | 11 | |
| 301847784 | cinquain | The general term for a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern | 12 | |
| 301847785 | sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet. | 13 | |
| 301847786 | septet | A poem or stanza consisting of seven lines, having any form or meter | 14 | |
| 301847787 | octave | a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter | 15 | |
| 301847788 | enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause. | 16 | |
| 301847789 | end-stop rhyme | In poetry, a line ending in a full pause, often indicated by appropriate punctuation such as a period or semicolon. | 17 | |
| 301847790 | scansion | The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 18 | |
| 301847791 | onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 19 | |
| 304089438 | lyric poetry | a form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings | 20 | |
| 304089439 | sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. | 21 | |
| 304089440 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. | 22 | |
| 304089441 | Spenserian Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee | 23 | |
| 304089442 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 24 | |
| 304089443 | ode | 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. | 25 | |
| 304089444 | ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 26 | |
| 304089445 | folk ballad | - a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | 27 | |
| 304089446 | Literary Ballad | ballads based on folk ballads | 28 | |
| 307767448 | villanelle | A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 29 | |
| 307767449 | sestina | A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi | 30 | |
| 307767450 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events | 31 | |
| 319198264 | concrete poetry | Poetry that draws much of its power from the way the text appears situated on the page. | 32 | |
| 319198265 | closed poetic form | Poetry written in a a specific or traditional pattern according to the required rhyme, meter, line length, line groupings, and number of lines within a genre of poetry. | 33 | |
| 319198266 | open poetic form | A poem of variable length, one which can consist of as many lines as the poet wishes to write. | 34 | |
| 319198267 | rhyme royal | seven line stanzas which are writen in iambic pentameter in a fixed rhyme scheme (ABABBCC) | 35 | |
| 319198268 | rondeau | A short poem consisting of ten, thirteen, or fifteen lines using only two rhymes which concludes each section with an abbreviated line that serves as a refrain | 36 | |
| 319198269 | pathetic fallacy | A type of often accidental or awkward personification in which a writer ascribes the human feelings of his or her characters to inanimate objects or non-human phenomena surrounding them in the natural world | 37 | |
| 319198270 | archaism | A word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era, but still deliberately used by a writer, poet, or playwright for artistic purposes. | 38 | |
| 319198271 | neologism | A made-up word that is not a part of normal, everyday vocabulary. | 39 | |
| 319198272 | poetic license | The freedom of a poet or other literary writer to depart from the norms of common discourse, literal reality, or historical truth in order to create a special effect in or for the reader. | 40 | |
| 319198273 | beat movement | American social and literary movement of the 1950's | 41 | |
| 331742148 | elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 42 | |
| 331742149 | metaphysical poetry | highly intellectual poetry written in England during the 17th century | 43 | |
| 331742150 | synaestesia | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | 44 | |
| 331742151 | pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 45 | |
| 331742152 | juxtaposition | the act of positioning close together | 46 | |
| 331742153 | turn/volta | the turn in thought in a sonnet | 47 | |
| 331742154 | terza rima | the arrangement of triplets in iams | 48 | |
| 331742155 | conceit | Excessive pride in oneself | 49 | |
| 331742156 | catachresis | The use of a word in a way that is not correct | 50 | |
| 331742157 | pastoral | A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life | 51 | |
| 331742158 | refrain | A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song | 52 | |
| 356311903 | alliterative verse | verse that uses alliteration as the structuring device | 53 | |
| 356311904 | cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 54 | |
| 356311905 | anapest | a metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one | 55 | |
| 356311906 | trochee | a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one | 56 | |
| 356311907 | iamb | a metrical foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one | 57 | |
| 356311908 | dactyl | a metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 58 | |
| 356311909 | spondee | a metrical foot with two stressed syllables | 59 | |
| 356311910 | pyrrhic | a metrical foot with two unstressed syllables | 60 | |
| 356311911 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme of final stressed syllables | 61 | |
| 356311912 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables | 62 | |
| 356311913 | bathos | An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | 63 | |
| 361618225 | tenor | the real world subject in a metaphor | 64 | |
| 361618227 | vehicle | what the tenor refers to in a metaphor | 65 | |
| 361618229 | monometer | one foot | 66 | |
| 361618231 | dimeter | two feet | 67 | |
| 361618233 | trimeter | three feet | 68 | |
| 361618235 | tetrameter | four feet | 69 | |
| 361618237 | pentameter | five feet | 70 | |
| 361618239 | hexameter | six feet | 71 | |
| 361618241 | heptameter | seven feet | 72 | |
| 361618243 | octameter | eight feet | 73 | |
| 367206019 | dystopia | An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. | 74 | |
| 367206020 | utopia | An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. | 75 | |
| 367206021 | in medias res | Technical term for the epic convention of beginning "in the middle of things," rather than at the very start of the story. | 76 | |
| 367206022 | epistolary | Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters | 77 | |
| 367206023 | existentialism | A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will | 78 | |
| 367206024 | transcendentalism | the philosophy that divinity pervades all nature and humanity | 79 | |
| 367206025 | invective | Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 80 | |
| 367206026 | Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 81 | |
| 367206027 | periodic sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause | 82 | |
| 367206028 | loose (cumulative) sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 83 |
