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| 3659921656 | Alexandrine | Has 12 syllables. 6 iambic feet. Mostly used in french literature. | 0 | |
| 3659924178 | Allegory | An narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas. 2 levels. A literal level. And a symbolic level. | 1 | |
| 3659945210 | Alliteration | A repetition of 2 or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose. | 2 | |
| 3659958456 | Anagram | Where you rearrange two different words but with the same letters. Ex. Angel=Glean | 3 | |
| 3659967448 | Anapestic meter | A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable as in " on a boat" "in a slump" | 4 | |
| 3659980126 | apostrophe | A direct address to someone or something. "O Mountain" the dead, a spirit, an object...etc. | 5 | |
| 3659995938 | approximate rime | When words share share the same vowel sound or similar vowel sound and same end sound and they sort of rhyme but not exactly. Fish and which. | 6 | |
| 3660013534 | Assonance | the repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words which creates a kind of rhyme. | 7 | |
| 3660023107 | Ballad | A song that tells story. | 8 | |
| 3660027088 | Ballad stanza | consists of 4 lines. Rhymed abcb. 1st and 3rd lines have 4 metrical feet. 2nd and 4th lines have 3 feet. 4,3,4,3 | 9 | |
| 3660040337 | Blank verse | 5 iambic feet. Never rhymed. | 10 | |
| 3660043099 | cacophony | A harsh discordant sound often mirroring the meaning of the context in which it is used. | 11 | |
| 3660048885 | Caeaura | A pause within a line verse. Usually near the middle. But can be varied. | 12 | |
| 3660055003 | Carpe diem | Latin for seize the day | 13 | |
| 3660058782 | Clerihew | begins the name of a person and consists of 2 metrically award biographies usually of famous people. | 14 | |
| 3660067507 | Connotation | An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry. A part firm the literal meaning. | 15 | |
| 3660075026 | Consonance | Aka-slant rhyme. Linked words share similar consonant sounds but different vowel sounds. Reason/raisin. Mink/monk. | 16 | |
| 3660082425 | Controlling metaphor | A symbolic story where the quite poem may be a metaphor for something else. | 17 | |
| 3660087010 | Couplet | 2 line stanza. Usually rhymed. Tends to be equal length. | 18 | |
| 3660095699 | Dactylic meter | metrical foot or a beat containing 3 syllables in which the 1st one is accented followed by 2 unaccented . HU/man/ly | 19 |
