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| 6749856765 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 6749856766 | alliteration | beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words |  | 1 |
| 6749856767 | allusion | indirect of passing reference |  | 2 |
| 6749856768 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 3 |
| 6749856770 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character |  | 4 |
| 6749856771 | approximate rhyme | words in rhyming pattern that sound alike |  | 5 |
| 6749856772 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 6 |
| 6749856773 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 7 |
| 6749856774 | blank verse | poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme |  | 8 |
| 6749856776 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 9 |
| 6749856777 | catharsis | the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse) |  | 10 |
| 6749856786 | connotation | secondary meaning to a word |  | 11 |
| 6749856787 | consonance | repetition of same consonant in words close together |  | 12 |
| 6749856788 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 13 |
| 6749856789 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word |  | 14 |
| 6749856790 | denouement | final outcome of the story |  | 15 |
| 6749856792 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 16 |
| 6749856793 | direct presentation of character | author telling the reader how a character is and what actions it will do further in the story |  | 17 |
| 6749856794 | double rhyme | rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn) | 18 | |
| 6749856795 | dramatic exposition | prose commentaries, to provide background information about the characters and their world |  | 19 |
| 6749856796 | end rhyme | rhymes occurring at the end of line |  | 20 |
| 6749856797 | end stopped line | line ending in regular punctuation |  | 21 |
| 6749856798 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg |  | 22 |
| 6749856800 | euphony | smooth choice and arrangement of sounds |  | 23 |
| 6749856801 | extended figure | A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. |  | 24 |
| 6749856803 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables |  | 25 |
| 6749856805 | figure of speech | a way of saying something other than the ordinary way |  | 26 |
| 6749856806 | foot | basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables |  | 27 |
| 6749856807 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem |  | 28 |
| 6749856808 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 29 |
| 6749856809 | hamartia | tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall |  | 30 |
| 6749856811 | indirect presentation of character | the personality of a character is revealed by what he or she does or says |  | 31 |
| 6749856812 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 32 |
| 6749856815 | dramatic irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |  | 33 |
| 6749856816 | irony of situation | refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended |  | 34 |
| 6749856817 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 35 |
| 6749856818 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |  | 36 |
| 6749856819 | melodrama | a play based upon a dramatic plot and developed sensationally |  | 37 |
| 6749856821 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 38 |
| 6749856822 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it |  | 39 |
| 6749856825 | octave | 8 line stanza |  | 40 |
| 6749856828 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 41 |
| 6749856837 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. |  | 42 |
| 6749856839 | quatrain | A four line stanza |  | 43 |
| 6749856845 | scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns |  | 44 |
| 6749856846 | sestet | 6 line stanza |  | 45 |
| 6749856849 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 46 |
| 6749856850 | sonnet | 14 line poem |  | 47 |
| 6749856853 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. |  | 48 |
| 6749856855 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 49 |
| 6749856856 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 50 |
| 6749856857 | tercet | 3 line stanza | | 51 |
| 6749856858 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 52 |
| 6749856862 | truncation | Utilizing a melody with part of the end omitted. |  | 53 |
| 6749856864 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | | 54 |
| 6749856865 | vilanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |  | 55 |
