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| 3776105732 | Heroic Couplet | 2 successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within two lines | 0 | |
| 3776110519 | Free Verse | Consists of lines that do NOT have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme | 1 | |
| 3776114552 | Meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 2 | |
| 3776117363 | Pun | humorous play on words that have several meanings | 3 | |
| 3776121102 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse Similar to alliteration | 4 | |
| 3776124630 | Stanza | a division of a poem based on thought or form | 5 | |
| 3776128179 | Pathos | The quality of a literary work or passage which appeals to a reader's or viewer's emotions | 6 | |
| 3776130372 | Assonance | The similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in 2 or more words (base and face are rhymes, base and fate are assonance) | 7 | |
| 3776137223 | Allegory | a narrative or description having a 2nd meaning beneath the surface one | 8 | |
| 3776139614 | Refrain | repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of the stanza | 9 | |
| 3776146446 | Antithesis | a balancing or contrasting of one term against another | 10 | |
| 3776150034 | Terza Rima | a 3 line stanza form with an interlaced rhyme scheme | 11 | |
| 3776153879 | Parody | a comical imitation of a serious piece with the intent of ridiculing the author or the work | 12 | |
| 3776160512 | Allusion | a reference in literature or in art to precious literature, history, mythology, current events, or the bible | 13 | |
| 3776164129 | Enjambment | the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first | 14 | |
| 3776172137 | Feminine Rhyme | Occurs when the last 2 syllables of a word rhyme with another (women are more complicated) | 15 | |
| 3776174117 | Antecedent | the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers | 16 | |
| 3776178657 | narrative poem | poem that tells a story | 17 | |
| 3776182729 | Iamb | a two syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable (most common) | 18 | |
| 3776187266 | synecdoche | the technique of mentioning a part of something to represent a whole | 19 | |
| 3776191097 | villanelle | consists of 5 tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third line of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercet and together at the last 2 lines of the equilibrium | 20 | |
| 3776205240 | Oxymoron | two words combined that are completely opposite | 21 | |
| 3776207849 | connotation | an association a word calls to mind | 22 | |
| 3776212407 | Archetype | a character, situation, or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature | 23 | |
| 3776216649 | Metonymy | The substitution of a word naming an object for another closely associated with it | 24 | |
| 3776222318 | Satire | the use of humor to ridicule and expose the shortcoming and fallings of society | 25 | |
| 3776226814 | Parable | a short story illustrating a moral or religious lesson | 26 | |
| 3776228263 | Foot | Unit of mete, can have 2 or 3 syllables, consists generally of 1 stress and 1 or more unstressed syllables | 27 | |
| 3776236299 | Sonnet | 14 line stanza form consisting of 8 iambic pentameter lines | 28 | |
| 3776239281 | Blank Verse | consists of lines with iambic pentameter without end rhyme | 29 | |
| 3776244537 | Aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle; sometimes considered a fold proverb | 30 | |
| 3776247649 | triple rhyme | last three syllables of a line | 31 | |
| 3776250837 | pastoral | a poem that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shepherds | 32 | |
| 3776252965 | anachronism | an element in a story that is out of its time frame | 33 | |
| 3776258258 | anecdote | a short and often personal story used to emphasize a point, to develop a character or theme | 34 | |
| 3776262028 | Conceit | a far fetched comparison between 2 seemingly unlike things | 35 |
