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| 8846995995 | Antithesis | The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in "Give me liberty or give me death." | 0 | |
| 8846996859 | Verbal irony | A person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. Ex: It's no big deal, my dad just died. | 1 | |
| 8847000031 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Ex: Jumbo Shrimp | 2 | |
| 8847003884 | Parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. the use of successive verbal construction in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. Ex: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do do for your country. | 3 | |
| 8847006792 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant of sounds. Ex: "all mimsy the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. the jaws that bite, the claws that catch." | 4 | |
| 8847009450 | Euphony | Agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words. Ex:too silver for a seam.A figure of speech by which | 5 | |
| 8847009451 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, Ex: Cruel kindness; to make haste slowly. | 6 | |
| 8847011714 | Symbol | Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. Ex: flowers representing youth or beauty. | 7 | |
| 8847015635 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation. Ex: the tone of the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is humorous, childlike, nostalgic, yet increasingly dark, and serious. | 8 | |
| 8847017515 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by associated with its referent. | 9 | |
| 8847017516 | Iamb | a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, asin Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love. | 10 | |
| 8847020510 | Trochee | a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. Peter/piper/picked a/peck of/pickled/peppers. | 11 | |
| 8847020511 | Anapest | a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter. A billard. | 12 | |
| 8847022456 | Spondee | a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Skill was. | 13 | |
| 8847022470 | Dactyle | a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, asin gently and humanly. | 14 | |
| 8847024349 | Couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. Ex: But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee. | 15 | |
| 8847024350 | Envoy | Short stanza at the end of a poem such as a ballad used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | 16 | |
| 8847026992 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit. | 17 | |
| 8847028659 | Tercet | A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines. | 18 | |
| 8847029364 | Caesura | a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself/presume not God to scan. | 19 | |
| 8847033474 | Litotes | understatement, especially that in which an affirmation is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." | 20 | |
| 8847035290 | 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." | 21 | |
| 8847040237 | Syndecdoche | a figure 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. | 22 | |
| 8847041511 | Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose." | 23 | |
| 8847041512 | Metaphore | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God." | 24 | |
| 8847043199 | Trope | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. | 25 | |
| 8847044332 | Assonance | also called vowel rhyme, 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. | 26 | |
| 8847050139 | Consonance | correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. | 27 | |
| 8847052112 | Synesthesia | a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. | 28 | |
| 8847052113 | Image | a mental representation; idea;conception | 29 | |
| 8847054664 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse | 30 | |
| 8847054665 | Free Verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern | 31 | |
| 8847058209 | Lyric | having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramtic poetry. | 32 | |
| 8847060722 | Narrative | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. | 33 | |
| 8847062538 | Terza rima | an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc | 34 | |
| 8847062539 | Line | a row of written or printed words. a verse of poetry: a line in iambic pentameter contains five feet. | 35 | |
| 8847066703 | Enjambment | the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. | 36 | |
| 8847067952 | Didactic | intended for instruction; instructive | 37 | |
| 8847067953 | Rhyme | a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind | 38 | |
| 8847071066 | Rhythm | a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element,etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or modified form. | 39 | |
| 8847072711 | Elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. | 40 | |
| 8847072712 | Haiku | amajore form of japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, usually on the subject of nature. | 41 | |
| 8847075534 | Limerick | a humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter form a rhymed couplet. | 42 | |
| 8847075535 | Ode | a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. | 43 | |
| 8847078468 | Sestina | a poem of six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy,originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end word of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end. | 44 | |
| 8847080934 | Villanelle | a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. | 45 | |
| 8847101009 | Sonnet | a poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter which sometimes ends with a couplet. | 46 |
