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| 12829635302 | Alliteration | Repetition of a consonant sound in initial position | 0 | |
| 12829635303 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound in any position | 1 | |
| 12829635304 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound in any position | 2 | |
| 12829635305 | Euphony | Derived from the Greek word "euphonos" that means sweet-voiced. It can be defined as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a melody or loveliness in the sounds they create | 3 | |
| 12829635306 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of strong consonants to achieve desired results. | 4 | |
| 12829635307 | Onomatopoeia | Word which creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting | 5 | |
| 12829635308 | Meter | rhythmic stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern. Ex. spondee, iambic, anapestic | 6 | |
| 12829635309 | Metric Lines | groups of stressed and unstressed syllables collected into a line Ex. Tetrameter, Pentameter, Hexameter | 7 | |
| 12829635310 | Stanzas | Grouping of lines in a poem. Ex. Couplet, quatrain, octave. Stanzas in poetry are similar to paragraphs in prose. Both stanzas and paragraphs include connected thoughts and are set off by a space | 8 | |
| 12829635311 | Foot | the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse (meter) | 9 | |
| 12829635312 | Rhyme Scheme | End rhyme expressed alphabetically (abbacdcd) | 10 | |
| 12829635313 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter | 11 | |
| 12829635314 | Free Verse | Poetry with no regular rhyme or rhythm | 12 | |
| 12829635315 | Heroic Couplet | two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter, make a complete thought | 13 |
