3497388770 | Alliteration | repeated constant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on same or adjacent lines, | 0 | |
3497402867 | Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same line (accented or stressed) | 1 | |
3497420095 | Consonance | Repeated constant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other. | 2 | |
3497433334 | Cacophony | discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder. | 3 | |
3497446977 | Euphony | series of musically pleasant sounds conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language | 4 | |
3497457253 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meanings, tick sounds and other sounds. | 5 | |
3497460402 | Repetition | the purposeful re use of words and phrases for an effect. | 6 | |
3497475990 | Rhyme | This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public, different beginning sounds but end sounds alike. | 7 | |
3497486698 | Double Rhymes | include the double 2 syllables " revival, arrival, survival" | 8 | |
3497491286 | Triple rhymes | include the final 3 syllables "greenery, machinery, scenery" | 9 | |
3518514445 | Irony | A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. | 10 | |
3518522651 | Metaphor | A direct comparison between to alike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other. | 11 | |
3518529400 | Oxymoron | A combination of 2 words that appear to contradict each other. | 12 | |
3518535679 | Symbol | An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance. | 13 | |
3518546623 | Refrane | Phrase line, group of lines repeated throughout the poem. | 14 | |
3518564490 | Stanza forms | Names given to describe the number of lines on a stanzaic unit | 15 | |
3518566819 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 16 | |
3518570744 | Free verse | Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure | 17 | |
3518574502 | Stant Rhyme | Words with similar appearance but don't rhyme | 18 | |
3518580230 | Ballad | A narrative poem written as a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter with a taxa, xbxb rhyme | 19 | |
3518595498 | Lyric | Derived from the greek word lyre, originally designed to be sung, it is emotional element predominates. | 20 | |
3518606755 | Ode | Any of the several stanzaic forms more complex than the lyric with intricate rhyme schemes and irregular number of lines, generally of considerable length. | 21 | |
3518626175 | Sonnet | 14 line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme, traditionally love. | 22 | |
3518554498 | Stanza forms | 23 | ||
3552261558 | scansion | conscious measure of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. | 24 | |
3552284252 | implied | comparison isn't explicitly stated | 25 | |
3552288413 | metonymy | figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. | 26 | |
3552311270 | ballad | can be a wide range of subjects but frequently deals with folklore or popular legends | 27 | |
3552325920 | ode | intense expression of an elevated thought praising a person or object. | 28 | |
3552338189 | shakespearean sonnet | style of sonnet used by shakespeare with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd | 29 | |
3552345730 | italian sonnet | form of sonnet made popular by petrarch with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba | 30 | |
3552360459 | Spenserian sonnet | a variant of shakespeare form in which the quatrains are linked with a chain or interlocked rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee | 31 | |
3552377880 | sonnet sequence | series of sonnets in which there is a discernible unifying theme, while each retrains its own structural independence | 32 | |
3552396688 | triolet | poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first is repeated as the forth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth | 33 |
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