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| 2843469457 | Diction | The authors word choice or style of writing | 0 | |
| 2843470620 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 1 | |
| 2843472660 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 2 | |
| 2843474737 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 3 | |
| 2843475359 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 4 | |
| 2843477138 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 5 | |
| 2843478029 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 6 | |
| 2843478781 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 7 | |
| 2843479613 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 8 | |
| 2843482070 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 9 | |
| 2843482880 | Irony | A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. | 10 | |
| 2843485275 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 11 | |
| 2843486238 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 12 | |
| 2843488443 | Simple Sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 13 | |
| 2843489496 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 14 | |
| 2843490325 | Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 15 | |
| 2843490930 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 16 | |
| 2843492366 | Inverted Sentence | any sentence in which the normal word order is reversed, with the verb coming before the subject or the complete subject and predicate coming after another clause | 17 | |
| 2843494810 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 18 | |
| 2843495572 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 19 | |
| 2843498302 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 20 | |
| 2843499505 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 21 | |
| 2843500141 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 22 | |
| 2843503085 | Slight Rhyme/ Slant Rhyme | words that look like they should rhyme but don't | 23 | |
| 2843505056 | Quatrain | A four line stanza | 24 | |
| 2843505946 | Couplets | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 25 | |
| 2843507404 | Rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. | 26 | |
| 2843508849 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 27 | |
| 2843509839 | Feet | Number of syllables it contains and how stress is placed | 28 | |
| 2843511593 | Iambic Meter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. | 29 | |
| 2843515092 | Iambic Pentameter | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 30 | |
| 2843516319 | Iambic Tetrameter | contains eight syllables and four iambic feet | 31 | |
| 2843517021 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 32 | |
| 2843517675 | Petrarchan Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd | 33 | |
| 2843527185 | English Sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 34 | |
| 2843528120 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 35 | |
| 2843528121 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. | 36 | |
| 2843528940 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 37 | |
| 2843530030 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 38 | |
| 2843531845 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 39 | |
| 2843532036 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 40 | |
| 2843533128 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 41 | |
| 2843534988 | Onomatopeoia | the use of words that imitate the sounds they define (ex: hiss) | 42 |
