6742560275 | allegory | story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
6742560278 | anaphora | repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning | 1 | |
6742560279 | Enjambment | continuation of one line of a poem to the next without pause | 2 | |
6742560280 | apostrophe | figure of speech used to address an imaginary character | 3 | |
6742560282 | aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors on the stage | 4 | |
6742560283 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 5 | |
6742560286 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line | 6 | |
6742560287 | ode | a lyric poem that celebrates something | 7 | |
6742560290 | Shakespearean sonnet | a 14 line poem with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg | 8 | |
6742560291 | Spenserian sonnet | a 14 line poem with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbccdcdee | 9 | |
6742560292 | Italian sonnet | a 14 line poem that includes an octave and a sestet | 10 | |
6742560293 | Octave | the first 8 lines of an Italian sonnet | 11 | |
6742560294 | sestet | the last 6 lines of a traditional Italian sonnet | 12 | |
6742560298 | couplet | two rhyming lines in a verse | 13 | |
6742560302 | didactic writing | writing with a primary purpose to teach or preach | 14 | |
6742560318 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 15 | |
6742560322 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 16 | |
6742560327 | 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 | |
6742560331 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 18 | |
6742560332 | 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 | |
6742560336 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 20 | |
6742560337 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 21 | |
6742560338 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 22 | |
6742560339 | paradox | A seeming contradiction | 23 | |
6742560354 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 24 | |
6742560359 | soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 25 | |
6742560365 | 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 | |
6743313739 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual word order ex: In the night sky shimmered the moon. | 27 | |
6743400381 | anthropomorphism | type of personification which actually makes inanimate objects seem human ex: Characters, such as the household items in Beauty and the Beast, acting human. | 28 | |
6743458212 | asyndeton | a list in which conjunctions are purposely left out. ex: Read, write, learn | 29 | |
6743458213 | polysyndeton | use of conjunctions frequently in a sentence. ex: here and there and everywhere | 30 | |
6743490325 | 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 |
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