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5994641311AlliterationThe repetition of similar sounds usually consonants at the beginning of words.0
5994641312AntithesisOpposites place next to each other.1
5994641313ConsonanceWhen words resemble each other like napping tapping and wrapping.2
5994641314Hexameter6 feet.3
5994641315RefrainVerse or phrase repeated throughout a poem.4
5994641316ApostropheA direct address to an absent or dead or to an object quality or idea.5
5994641317Slant RhymeAn imperfect rhyme also call an oblique rive or offramp in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same as between port at heart.6
5994641318Blank VerseUnrhymed iambic pentameter blank verse bears a closer to the rhythms of ordinary speech getting poetry a natural feel Shakespeare's plays are usually written in blank verse.7
5994641319CoupletTwo successive rhymed lines that are equal length.8
5994641320Sestina6 6 lines stanzas followed by a three line stanza. the same six words are repeated at the end of lines throughout the poem in a predetermined pattern. The last word in the last line of one stanza becomes the last word of the first line in the next. All six end-words appear in the final three line stanza.9
5994641321End-Stopped LineWhen a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon.10
5994641322EnjambedA single sentence that is broken up into multiple lines.11
5994641323AssonanceRepetition of sounds or about rhyme like weak and weary.12
5994641324DactylA stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.13
5994641325DictionThe choice or use of words.14
5994641326SonnetA single stands a lyric poem containing 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. In some formulations the first eight lines pose a question or dilemma that it is all in the final six lines.15
5994641327Masculine rhymeA rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable as in the rhyme between car and far.16
5994641328Carpe DiemLiterally, the phrase is Latin for "seize the day," from carpere (to pluck, harvest, or grab) and the accusative form of die (day). The term refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and should enjoy it before it ends.17
5994641329ConnotationAn idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.18
5994641330DenotationLiteral meaning of a word19
5994641331Dimeter2 feet.20
5994641332VillanelleA nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.21
5994641333AnapestTwo unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable22
5994670672AudienceA person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes.23

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