3746593904 | Allegory | A story with a hidden meaning or moral | 0 | |
3746593905 | Alliteration | Repetition of the first sound of each word | 1 | |
3746593906 | Allusion | Reference to a historical, religious, or cultural work | 2 | |
3746593907 | Anecdote | Cute little story | 3 | |
3746593908 | Antithesis | Direct opposite of something | 4 | |
3746593909 | Apostrophe | Talking to someone or something that is not there | 5 | |
3746593910 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sound in words or phrases | 6 | |
3746593911 | Ballad | Narrated poem with a story | 7 | |
3746593912 | Blank verse | A poem that has structured meter but doesn't rhyme | 8 | |
3746593913 | Caesura | A pause in the middle of the line or verse | 9 | |
3746593914 | Conceit | Extended metaphor with complex logic | 10 | |
3746593915 | Consonance | The repetition of the same consonant sound | 11 | |
3746593916 | Couplet | A pair of lines | 12 | |
3746593917 | Diction | Word choice | 13 | |
3746593918 | Elegy | A poem written about death | 14 | |
3746593919 | Enjambment | The same thought continuing onto the next line | 15 | |
3746593920 | Exposition | Info at the beginning of a work that gives you background and explanation | 16 | |
3746593921 | Eye rhyme | Words that look like they rhyme, but don't | 17 | |
3746593922 | Free verse | A poem that does not have a structured meter or rhyming scheme | 18 | |
3746593923 | Haiku | A five lined unrhymed poem with a 5-7-5 pattern in syllables | 19 | |
3746593924 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration not meant to be taken literally | 20 | |
3746593925 | Iambic pentameter | A certain rhythm in poetry that consists of five feet to a line, each feet with two beats | 21 | |
3746593926 | Imagery | Visually descriptive language that focuses on the five senses | 22 | |
3746593927 | Juxtaposition | Two things together that create a contrasting effect | 23 | |
3746593928 | Limerick | A poem consisting of five lines, three long lines and two short | 24 | |
3746593929 | Litotes | A phrase ironically written with a double negative | 25 | |
3746593930 | Lyric | Expressing the writers emotions | 26 | |
3746593931 | Metaphor | Comparison without like or as | 27 | |
3746593932 | Meter | The basic rhythmic structure of a verse | 28 | |
3746593933 | Metonymy | Using the name of a thing for something it's related to | 29 | |
3746593934 | Ode | A poem the expresses strong love for something or someone | 30 | |
3746593935 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates a sound | 31 | |
3746593936 | Oxymoron | Two contradictory words used together | 32 | |
3746593937 | Paradox | A statement that seems to be self contradictory but that when investigated may prove to be true | 33 | |
3746593938 | Personification | Giving lifelikecharacteristics to nonliving things | 34 | |
3746593939 | Prosody | The study of the metrical quality of a verse | 35 | |
3746593940 | Quatrain | Stanza of poetry consisting of four lines | 36 | |
3746593941 | Refrain | A phrase or verse repeated throughout the poem | 37 | |
3746593942 | Requiem | An act or token of remembrance | 38 | |
3746593943 | Scansion | The analysis of the meter of the verse | 39 | |
3746593944 | Simile | Comparison using like or as | 40 | |
3746593945 | Soliloquy | One person speaking one's thoughts to them self or to the audience | 41 | |
3746593946 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem with a formal rhyming scheme, often written in iambic pentameter | 42 | |
3746593947 | Stanza | A paragraph in poetry | 43 | |
3746593948 | Synesthesia | A stimulus being applied to another sense | 44 | |
3746593949 | Synecdoche | A metaphor in which a part of something represents the whole | 45 | |
3746593950 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 46 | |
3746593951 | Trope | Any figure of speech | 47 | |
3746593952 | Verse | A stanza or section in poetry | 48 | |
3746593953 | Villanelle | Nineteen line poem consisting of three tercets and one quatrain | 49 |
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