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| 3646473609 | Alliteration | Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. | 0 | |
| 3646479053 | Allusion | Reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. | 1 | |
| 3646488058 | Antithesis | Figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes." | 2 | |
| 3646489297 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech in which someone (usually , but always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. | 3 | |
| 3646496255 | Assonance | Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. | 4 | |
| 3646500004 | Ballad meter | Four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 5 | |
| 3646505534 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. It is the meter of most Shakespeare's plays, as well as that of Milton's Paradise Lost. | 6 | |
| 3646514493 | Cacophony | Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. | 7 | |
| 3646517050 | Caesura | Pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause. | 8 | |
| 3646523087 | Conceit | Ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 9 | |
| 3704759977 | Consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede then are different. | 10 | |
| 3704773793 | Couplet | a two line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same. | 11 | |
| 3704787714 | Devices of sound | the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. | 12 | |
| 3704795333 | Diction | the use of words in a literary work. | 13 | |
| 3704798230 | Didactic Poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson. | 14 | |
| 3704804702 | Dramatic Poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. | 15 | |
| 3704807782 | Elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. | 16 | |
| 3704812619 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, and exclamation point, or a question mark | 17 | |
| 3704816564 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. | 18 | |
| 3704821698 | Extended metaphor | An implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. | 19 | |
| 3741965296 | Euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. | 20 | |
| 3741965297 | Eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme from the pronunciation. Watch and match and love and move | 21 | |
| 3741966819 | Feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as awaken and forsaken and audition and rendition. sometimes called double rhyme. | 22 | |
| 3741980483 | Figurative Language | writing that uses figures of speech (as apposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, irony, and simile. Uses words to mean something other than the literal meaning. | 23 | |
| 3741990278 | Free Verse | poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical. | 24 | |
| 3742014871 | Heroic Couplet | two end stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two line | 25 | |
| 3742014872 | Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant and often outrages exageration | 26 | |
| 3742016905 | Imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work | 27 | |
| 3742020753 | Irony | the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. | 28 | |
| 3742023600 | Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. | 29 | |
| 3788593818 | Lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. | 30 | |
| 3788597106 | Masculine Rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme words. Keep and sleep, glow and no. | 31 | |
| 3788603325 | Metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like as like or than. (The black bat night) | 32 | |
| 3788614765 | Meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. | 33 | |
| 3788618590 | Metonymy | a figure in speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. In this way we commonly speak of the king as the crown and object closely associated with kingship. | 34 | |
| 3788635502 | Mixed metaphor | the mingling of one metaphor which another immediately following with which the first is incongruous. Lloyd George is reported to have said, " I smell rat. I see it floating in the air. i shall nip it in bud." | 35 | |
| 3788650390 | Narrative Poem | a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. Epics and ballads are examples. | 36 | |
| 3788661371 | Octave | an eight-line stanza. Most commonly, refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet. | 37 | |
| 3788673637 | Anomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. Examples: buzz, hiss, honk. | 38 | |
| 3788681447 | Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness. | 39 | |
| 3835120331 | Paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. | 40 | |
| 3835134427 | Parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry | 41 | |
| 3835138703 | Paraphrase | a restatement of an ideas in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. | 42 | |
| 3835145727 | Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 43 | |
| 3835155962 | Poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it. | 44 | |
| 3835161596 | Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. | 45 | |
| 3835166276 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes. | 46 | |
| 3835175008 | Refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 47 | |
| 3835183819 | Rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse. | 48 | |
| 3835198091 | Rhyme Royal | a seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets. | 49 | |
| 3878529457 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 50 | |
| 3878547951 | Sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Its purpose is to injure or to hurt. | 51 | |
| 3878554849 | Satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule. Usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly. | 52 | |
| 3878566570 | Scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line. | 53 | |
| 3878572840 | Sestet | a six-line stanza | 54 | |
| 3878574945 | Simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like", "as", or "than" | 55 | |
| 3878587303 | Sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The conventional Italian, or Petrarchan is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; the English, or Shakespearean, rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 56 | |
| 3878606314 | Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 57 | |
| 3878613632 | Strategy | the management of language for a specific effect. Planned placing of elements to achieve an effect | 58 | |
| 3878634270 | Structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. | 59 | |
| 3928294221 | Style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristics manner of expression of an author | 60 | |
| 3928301087 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 61 | |
| 3928319014 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. For example , we refer to "foot soldiers" for infantry and "field hands" for manual laborers who work in agriculture. | 62 | |
| 3928342531 | Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 63 | |
| 3928349364 | Tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme. | 64 | |
| 3928878576 | Terza rime | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. | 65 | |
| 3928882996 | Theme | the main thought expressed by a work. In poetry, it is the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation person, action, and image in the work. | 66 | |
| 3928889937 | Tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; | 67 | |
| 3928895002 | Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole. It is kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 68 | |
| 3928906486 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain | 69 |
