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14745417471Anapestunstressed, unstressed, stressed0
14745417472BalladA poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas called quatrains1
14745417473Blank versePoetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter2
14745417474Bildungsromana novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education (coming of age)3
14745417475CaesuraA natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.4
14745417476Conceitextended metaphor5
14745417477ConventionA cliche, device, or trope that acts as a defining feature of a genre6
14745417478Dactylone stressed, two unstressed7
14745417479Didacticintended to teach8
14745417480Elegya sorrowful poem or speech9
14745417481ExplicationThe interpretation or analysis of a text.10
14745417482FootA metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.11
14745417483free versepoetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter12
14745417484Hubrisexcessive pride or self-confidence13
14745417485Iambunstressed, stressed14
14745417486Leitmotifa recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.15
14745417487LitotesA figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.16
14745417488metonymy/synecdocheA figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it/a substitution of a part for a whole17
14745417489ParableA simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson18
14745417490ParadoxA statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.19
14745417491Prosodythe patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry20
14745417492refrainA line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.21
14745417493ScansionAnalysis of verse into metrical patterns22
14745417494Sestetsix line stanza23
14745417495Sonneta poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.24
14745417496Spondeestressed, stressed25
14745417497Trocheestressed, unstressed26
14745417498pastoralGlorifying country life27
14745417499VillanelleA French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes28

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