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| 6737355698 | Iamb | Two-syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable | 0 | |
| 6737355699 | Trochee | Stressed followed by unstressed | 1 | |
| 6737355700 | Anapest | Three syllables with stress on the last | 2 | |
| 6737355701 | Spondee | Two stressed syllables. Compound words are an example. | 3 | |
| 6737355702 | Dactyl | Three syllables with stress on the first | 4 | |
| 6737355703 | Pyrrhic | Two unstressed syllables | 5 | |
| 6737355704 | Rhymed verse | Consists of a verse with an end rhyme and usually a regular meter | 6 | |
| 6737355705 | Blank verse | Consists of lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme | 7 | |
| 6737355706 | Free verse | Lines do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme | 8 | |
| 6737355707 | End rhyme | Consists of the similarity occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse | 9 | |
| 6737355708 | Internal rhyme | Consists of the similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of the worse | 10 | |
| 6737355709 | Masculine rhyme | Occurs when one syllable of a word rhymes with another word | 11 | |
| 6737355710 | Feminine rhyme | Occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word | 12 | |
| 6737355711 | Triple rhyme | Occurs when the last three syllables of a word or a line rhyme | 13 | |
| 6737355712 | Alliteration | Is the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line of verse | 14 | |
| 6737355713 | Onomoatopoeia | The use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds | 15 | |
| 6737355714 | Assonance | Is the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words. I.e lake and fate | 16 | |
| 6737355715 | Consonance | The repitition of consonant sounds within a line of verse. I.e seems, asleep | 17 | |
| 6737355716 | Refrain | Is the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanze. | 18 | |
| 6737355717 | Repitition | Is the reiterating of word or phrase within a poem | 19 | |
| 6737355718 | Synecdoche | Is the technique of mentioning a part of something to represent the whole | 20 | |
| 6737385186 | Metonymy | Is the substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it | 21 | |
| 6737414483 | Allegory | a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one | 22 | |
| 6737460050 | Antithesis | is a balancing or contrasting of one term against another. i.e "man proposes, God disposes" | 23 | |
| 6737554280 | Apostrophe | is the addressing of someone of someone or something usually not present, as though present | 24 | |
| 6737580984 | Dramatic Irony | a device by which the author implies a different meaning from what is intended by the speaker in a literary work. An incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true (or between what a character perceives and what the author intends the reader to perceive) | 25 | |
| 6737623784 | Irony of situation | a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass | 26 | |
| 6737639321 | Verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is meant is opposite of what is said | 27 | |
| 6737647609 | Paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements | 28 | |
| 6737653867 | Oxymoron | a compact paradox- a figure of speech that contains two contradictory words, placed side by side. I.e. wise fool, bitter sweet, living death | 29 | |
| 6737668315 | Stanza | a division of a poem based on thought or form | 30 | |
| 6737672001 | Heroic Couplet | consists of two successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within the two lines. Usually consists of iambic pentameter lines | 31 | |
| 6737681759 | Terza Rima | a three-line stanza form with an interlaced or interwoven rhyme scheme: a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d, etc. | 32 | |
| 6746696957 | Limerick | is a five-line nonsense poem with an anapestic mete. The rhyme scheme is usually a-a-b-b-a. The first, second, and fifth lines have three stresses; and the third and fourth have two stresses | 33 | |
| 6746716542 | Ballad stanza | consists of four lines with a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b. The first and third lines are tetrameter and the second and fourth are trimeter | 34 | |
| 6746730587 | Rime Royal | is a stanza consisting of seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming a-b-a-b-b-c-c | 35 | |
| 6746737065 | Ottava Rima | consists of eight iambic pentameter lines with rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c. It is a form that was borrowed from the Italians. | 36 | |
| 6746745935 | Spenserian Stanza | is a nine-line stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by an Alexandrian, a line of iambic hexameter. rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c. | 37 | |
| 6746761987 | Sonnet | a fourteen-line stanza form consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines. | 38 | |
| 6746770825 | Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet | is divided usually between eight lines called the octave, using two rimes arranged a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a, and six lines called the sestet, using any arrangement of two or three rimes: c-d-c-d-c-d and c-d-e-c-d-e are common patterns. The division between octave and sestet in the Italian sonnet usually corresponds to a division of though. Structure reflects the meaning. | 39 | |
| 6746795033 | English or Shakespearean Sonnet | Is composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, riming a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. Again the units marked off by the rimes and the development of the thought often correspond. The three quatrains, for instance, may present three examples and the couplet a conclusion or the quatrains three metaphorical statements of one idea and the couplet an application | 40 | |
| 6746846660 | Villanelle | consists of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain. | 41 | |
| 6746854890 | Elergy | usually a poem that mourns the death of an individual, the absence of something deeply loved, or the transience of mankind. | 42 | |
| 6746869258 | Ode | an exalted, complex rapturous lyric poem written about a dignified, lofty subject | 43 | |
| 6746876299 | Anachronism | an element in a story that is out of its time frame; sometimes used to create a humorous or jarring effect, but somethings the result of poor research on the author's part | 44 | |
| 6746887810 | Antecedent | the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers | 45 | |
| 6746891762 | Aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle; sometimes considered a folk proverb | 46 | |
| 6746898613 | Conceit | a far-fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things; an extended metaphor that gains appeal from its unusual or extraordinary comparisons | 47 | |
| 6746912397 | Enjambment | in poetry, the running over of a sentence form one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first | 48 | |
| 6746932039 | End stopped line | when the sentence or meaning does stop at the end of the line | 49 | |
| 6746945257 | Foot | a unit of meter/ A metrical foot can have two or three syllables | 50 | |
| 6746957135 | Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry | 51 |
