2864564050 | Enjambment | The writer does not end the line with a period or comma. | 0 | |
2864566892 | Masculine Rhyme | One syllable rhyme | 1 | |
2864570899 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds (usual @ the end of words in a line of poetry | 2 | |
2864574628 | Lyre | Harp like instrument | 3 | |
2864577026 | Spectial | Ghostly | 4 | |
2864579871 | Steady Meter | Must have meter | 5 | |
2864581559 | U | Unstressed syllable | 6 | |
2864584081 | - | Stressed syllable | 7 | |
2864585034 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed (Trochaic) | 8 | |
2864586987 | Mono-meter | Occurs 1x | 9 | |
2864588851 | Di-meter | Occurs 2x | 10 | |
2864589904 | Trimeter | Occurs 3x | 11 | |
2864591968 | Tetrameter | Occurs 4x | 12 | |
2864594410 | Pentameter | Occurs 5x | 13 | |
2864595818 | Iamb | Unstressed , Stressed (Iamic) | 14 | |
2864599658 | Intone | To call | 15 | |
2864616556 | Irony | Think of opposite | 16 | |
2864618760 | Verbal | Highlight the opposite of what you say | 17 | |
2864623799 | Dramatic | Occurs when a character says something when we know to be the opposite | 18 | |
2864628078 | Situational | An irony under situations. Something positive comes out of the situation | 19 | |
2864630985 | Cosmic | Nothing positive comes out of it. The universe deciding to crap on you. | 20 | |
2864636927 | Theme | What a writer believes it means to be human. Look for specificity. | 21 | |
2864649878 | Alliteration | Use of consonants repetitively | 22 | |
2864652956 | Whang | Noisy | 23 | |
2864654869 | Tone | Writers attitude towards the subject Diction Imagery Details | 24 | |
2864655898 | Nostalgia | Good feeling about your past | 25 | |
2864659106 | Irreverent | Disrespectful to something sacred | 26 | |
2864660511 | Sardonic | Grimly mocking or cynical | 27 | |
2864664171 | Omnipotent | All powerful | 28 | |
2864666533 | Dubious | Doubtful | 29 | |
2864667526 | Palpable | To be touched | 30 | |
2864670289 | Anachronism | Something in the wrong time period | 31 | |
2864673249 | Allusion | Reference to outside source | 32 | |
2864677119 | Sensory Imagery | Visual (sight) Auditory (hear) Olfactory (smell) Gustatory (taste) Tactile(touch) Kin-esthetic(body movement) | 33 | |
2864693471 | Apostrophe | Speaking to an in animate object | 34 | |
2864695550 | Ephemeral | Passes quickly and its gone | 35 | |
2864763212 | Internal Rhyme | When the words in the same line of poetry rhyme | 36 | |
2864923655 | Feminine Rhyme | Multi syllable word that rhymes | 37 | |
2864925844 | Assonance | Same vowel sounds | 38 | |
2864927508 | "Carpe Diem" | Seize the day and grab what you can, w hen you can, especially when young. Can be considered a genre of literature | 39 | |
2864936097 | Ode | A poem on an important subject | 40 | |
2864938200 | Ballad | A strong poem | 41 | |
2864939533 | Sonnet | 14 lines max | 42 | |
2864942194 | Italian | Petrarch-an | 43 | |
2864943973 | English | Shakespeare | 44 | |
2864946994 | Admonition | A severe warning | 45 | |
2864948018 | Lyric | A poem expressing one's personal feelings | 46 | |
2864949890 | Maudlin | Overly weeping; depressingly sad | 47 | |
2864952481 | Vehement | Passionate; strongly opinionated | 48 | |
2864956527 | Anaphora | The repetition of the first words of a line | 49 | |
2864961626 | Asyndeton | No use of conjunctions | 50 | |
2864964238 | Melliflous | Soft | 51 | |
2864965440 | Inexorable | Unavoidable | 52 | |
2864968133 | Ambivalent | Conflicting emotions about subject | 53 | |
2864971083 | Dirge | Song of lament | 54 | |
2864972062 | Pastoral | Poem that has to do with country side | 55 | |
2864977316 | Elegy | Poem of death | 56 | |
2864980972 | Petrarch-an Sonnet | 14 lines rhyme abba abba broken up in 8 & 6 cde cde | 57 | |
2864989638 | Ode | Poem on a significant matter | 58 | |
2864991510 | Shakespearean Sonnet | 14 lines rhyme abab cdcd broken up in 3 quatrants + efef gg | 59 | |
2864996526 | Eminence | Greatness | 60 | |
2864997393 | 8 lines | Octave | 61 | |
2864998832 | 6 lines | Sestet | 62 | |
2865000341 | Bemusement | Puzzled; confused or bewildered | 63 | |
2865006213 | Didact | Teaching lessons of moral nature | 64 | |
2865009317 | Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth. Ex. " If it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 65 | |
2865015460 | Homily | Religious sermon/lecture Ex. " A guest preacher delivered today's homily." | 66 | |
2865020404 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt. Ex. "To pass away" instead of "to die" | 67 | |
2865030484 | Circumspect | Wrong & unwilling to take risks | 68 | |
2865031833 | Enigmatic | Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious | 69 | |
2865035565 | Listless | lacking the energy or enthusiasm | 70 | |
2865037736 | Indifferent | Unconcerned; mediocre | 71 |
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