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| 6756186914 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning |  | 0 |
| 6756186915 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning |  | 1 |
| 6756186916 | Enjambment | continuation of one line of a poem to the next without pause |  | 2 |
| 6756186917 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to address an imaginary character |  | 3 |
| 6756186918 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage |  | 4 |
| 6756186919 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 5 |
| 6756186920 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line |  | 6 |
| 6756186921 | ode | a lyric poem that celebrates something |  | 7 |
| 6756186922 | Shakespearean sonnet | a 14 line poem with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg |  | 8 |
| 6756186923 | Spenserian sonnet | a 14 line poem with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbccdcdee | 9 | |
| 6756186924 | Italian sonnet | a 14 line poem that includes an octave and a sestet |  | 10 |
| 6756186925 | Octave | the first 8 lines of an Italian sonnet |  | 11 |
| 6756186926 | sestet | the last 6 lines of a traditional Italian sonnet |  | 12 |
| 6756186927 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse |  | 13 |
| 6756186928 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach |  | 14 |
| 6756186929 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 15 |
| 6756186930 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 16 |
| 6756186931 | italian sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |  | 17 |
| 6756186932 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |  | 18 |
| 6756186933 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it ex: the crown is allowed to make the decision. |  | 19 |
| 6756186934 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 20 |
| 6756186935 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |  | 21 |
| 6756186936 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. |  | 22 |
| 6756186937 | paradox | A seeming contradiction |  | 23 |
| 6756186938 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 24 |
| 6756186939 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |  | 25 |
| 6756186940 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa ex: His new wheels were enviable. |  | 26 |
| 6756186941 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual word order ex: In the night sky shimmered the moon. |  | 27 |
| 6756186942 | anthropomorphism | type of personification which actually makes inanimate objects seem human ex: the raging storm brought with it howling winds. |  | 28 |
| 6756186943 | asyndeton | a list in which conjunctions are purposely left out. ex: Read, write, learn |  | 29 |
| 6756186944 | polysyndeton | use of conjunctions frequently in a sentence. ex: here and there and everywhere |  | 30 |
| 6756186945 | chiasmus | two phrases that are parallel but inverted. ex: you can take the patriot out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the patriot |  | 31 |
