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7630134666CaesuraA pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns.0
7630138004CaricatureA depiction in which a character's characteristics or features are exaggerated as to render them absurd.1
7630164763ColloquialOrdinary Language, the vernacular.2
7630164764ConceitA comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, an extended metaphor within a poem.3
7630164765CoupletTwo rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection.4
7630164766DactylicA metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed.5
7630164768DenotationA direct and specific meaning, often referred to as dictionary meaning.6
7630167636Dramatic MonologueA monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience.7
7630170679EnjambmentThe continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next.8
7630176788PolysyndetonWhen several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.9
7630202529AsyndetonA style in which conjunctions are omitted.10
7630206660ElegyA poetic lament upon the death of a particular person usually ending in a consolation.11
7630212913VillanelleA verse form consisting of 19 lines divided into six stanzas..... Check Packet Def.12
7630220862Blank VerseThe verse form that resembles speech, and unrhymed lines.13
7630224621Ballad StanzaA common stanza form consisting of a quatrain that alternates four-beat and three-beat lines.14
7630228989AttitudeThe sense expressed by the tone of voice or mood of the writing.15
7630231852ArchtypeRecurrent designs, patters of action, character something.16
7630237593AnapesticA metric foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed.17
7630242475AnecdoteA brief story or tale told by a character.18
7630245283AllegoryA poetic narrative in which the characters behavior and setting have significance.19
7630311853Rhetorical QuestionA question asked for style not for an answer.20
7630322407AnaphoraThe regular repetition of a word at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.21
7630326926ApostropheAn address or invocation to something inanimate.22
7630329986ConsonanceThe repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change of vowels.23
7630333747ChiasmusA figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first two parallel clauses is reversed in the second.24
7630337731OxymoronA figure of speech that combines two contradictory elements.25
7630340616SynecdocheWhen a part is used to signify a whole.26
7630345172SonnetNot doing this definition Right now sorry. (Sonnet)27
7630349240PastoralA work that describes the simple life of country folk.28
7630352470AntithesisSharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or grammatical structure.29
7630357239IambicStressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.30
7630359619HyperboleAn overstatement by exaggerated language.31
7630361719FlashbackWhen a previous event is inserted into normal chronological events in a narrative.32

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