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| 6549683701 | active voice | any sentence with an active verb | 0 | |
| 6549683739 | allegory | an extended narrative in which the story is contrived to make sense on both a literal level and simultaneously signify a second | 1 | |
| 6549686022 | alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence | 2 | |
| 6549689517 | allusion | a reference to another person, work, event and the like | 3 | |
| 6549689518 | analogy | a term that signifies a comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas | 4 | |
| 6549691019 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses or paragraphs | 5 | |
| 6549691020 | aphorism | a brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth | 6 | |
| 6549693161 | apostrophe | direct address to someone who isn't present, a deity or muse or some form of higher power | 7 | |
| 6549700945 | assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines | 8 | |
| 6549693162 | blank verse | term applied to any verse that doesn't rhyme | 9 | |
| 6549702849 | caesura | a pause in a line of poetry in order to make the meaning clear or to follow the natural rhythm of speech | 10 | |
| 6549702850 | carpe diem | Latin for "seize the day" | 11 | |
| 6549704495 | connotation | the associations or moods attached to a word | 12 | |
| 6549704496 | consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel | 13 | |
| 6549706570 | couplet | a pair of rhymed lines | 14 | |
| 6549706571 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 15 | |
| 6549706572 | dialect | a regional speech pattern | 16 | |
| 6549706573 | diction | word choice | 17 | |
| 6549708487 | elegy | a formal meditative poem or lament for the dead | 18 | |
| 6549708488 | ellipses | three dots that indicate words have been left out | 19 | |
| 6549708489 | epistrophe | the ending of a series of lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with the same word or words, used to emphasize emotional impact | 20 | |
| 6549710213 | euphemism | to use an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word in place of something that could be potentially offensive or inappropriate | 21 | |
| 6549710214 | foil | a minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character | 22 | |
| 6549710215 | foot | the combination of stressed and unstressed syllable make up the metric unit of a line | 23 | |
| 6549713788 | free verse | poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form, often characterized by the the irregularity in the length of lines and lack of a conventional pattern | 24 | |
| 6549719523 | hyperbole | an exaggeration of an event or feeling | 25 | |
| 6549719524 | imagery | language that appeals to one or another of the five senses | 26 | |
| 6549723739 | irony | the use of words to express something other than or the opposite of the literal meaning | 27 | |
| 6549723740 | jargon | a pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people | 28 | |
| 6549723741 | juxtaposition | the placement of one idea next to its opposite to make it more dramatic | 29 | |
| 6549726617 | lyric | any poem in which the speaker expresses intensely personal emotion or thoughts | 30 | |
| 6549726618 | malapropism | a wonderful form of iconic word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar | 31 | |
| 6549742657 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things that are essentially dissimilar | 32 | |
| 6549742658 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or the units of stress patterns | 33 | |
| 6549742659 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for another with which it is closely associated | 34 | |
| 6549744524 | metric line | a line named according to the number of feet composing it | 35 | |
| 6549746854 | ode | a lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in stanzaic structure | 36 | |
| 6549750934 | onomatopeia | a figure of speech in which a word when spoken imitates the sound associated with the word | 37 | |
| 6549750935 | paradox | a self contradicting figure of speech | 38 | |
| 6549750936 | parallelism | a pattern of language that creates a rhythm of repetition often combined with some other language of repetition | 39 | |
| 6549752752 | panegyric | a literary expression of praise | 40 | |
| 6549752753 | passive voice | the opposite of active voice, used when something happens to someone or something | 41 | |
| 6549752754 | pastoral | a reference to or a description of simple country life | 42 | |
| 6549754542 | personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman thingsq | 43 | |
| 6549754543 | ploce | one of the most commonly used figures of stress by repeating a word withing the same line or clause | 44 | |
| 6549754544 | point of view | the perspective from which the writer chooses to tell his or her story | 45 | |
| 6549759267 | pun | a play on words used to create humor or comic relief | 46 | |
| 6549759268 | refrain | a line, part of a line or group of lines repeated in the course of a poem, sometimes with slight changes | 47 | |
| 6549760938 | repitition | the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis | 48 | |
| 6549760939 | rhyme | the echo or imitation of a sound | 49 | |
| 6549760940 | rhythm | the sense of movement attributable to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 50 | |
| 6549762888 | satire | a form of writing in which a subject (usually human vice) is made fun of or scorned | 51 | |
| 6549762889 | shift | a change in setting (place or time), tone, or speakers | 52 | |
| 6549762890 | simile | a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made using "like" or "as" or "than" between two very different things in order to express an idea that is more familiar or understandable | 53 | |
| 6549766564 | soliloquy | a speech in which a character in a play, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts | 54 | |
| 6549766565 | sonnet | a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types. | 55 | |
| 6549768987 | stanza | a group of lines that forms one division of a poem | 56 | |
| 6549768988 | symbol | an object that signifies something greater than itself | 57 | |
| 6549768989 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole | 58 | |
| 6549770924 | theme | an insight into life conveyed by a poem or story | 59 | |
| 6549781446 | verse | lines of poetry or metrical language in general in contrast to prose | 60 |
