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| 3259314075 | alliteration | the reputation of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 3259317229 | allusion | reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work | 1 | |
| 3259321782 | antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness | 2 | |
| 3259334857 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | 3 | |
| 3259342363 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 3259356604 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four | 5 | |
| 3259359185 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 3259363641 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 7 | |
| 3259365032 | caesura | pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and ofter greater than the normal pause | 8 | |
| 3259369216 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy and pointing to a striking parallel between two me | 9 | |
| 3265339642 | consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words usually referring to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different | 10 | |
| 3265343350 | diction | use of words | 11 | |
| 3265345610 | extended metaphor | implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 12 |
