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| 8509427872 | Allegory | A story that has two levels of meaning. The first is the surface of the story and the second is the meaning and symbols of the story | 0 | |
| 8509427873 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 1 | |
| 8509427874 | Apostrophe | A term used to address someone or something not present in the poem | 2 | |
| 8509427875 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 3 | |
| 8509427876 | Attitude | The perspective that the author has on the subject | 4 | |
| 8509427877 | Tone | The writers attitude toward the subject | 5 | |
| 8509427878 | Audience | Who the work is intended for | 6 | |
| 8509427879 | Conceit | An elaborate or unusual comparison when using unlikely metaphor simile hyperbole. (Dead as a door nail) | 7 | |
| 8509427880 | Conotation | implied meaning of a word | 8 | |
| 8509427881 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. (All's well that ends well) | 9 | |
| 8509427882 | Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word | 10 | |
| 8509427883 | Diction | Word choice | 11 | |
| 8509427884 | Dramatic poetry | is poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama | 12 | |
| 8509427885 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive | 13 | |
| 8509427886 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 14 | |
| 8509427887 | Imagery | Descriptive words that spark a mental image | 15 | |
| 8509427888 | Irony | The opposite of what is expected | 16 | |
| 8509427889 | Situational irony | Events turn out the opposite of what was expected | 17 | |
| 8509427890 | Verbal irony | Sarcasm | 18 | |
| 8509427891 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the characters don't | 19 | |
| 8509427892 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 20 | |
| 8509427893 | Extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 21 | |
| 8509427894 | Implied metaphor | a comparison that does not directly state that one thing is another. Ex. "The clouds galloped." | 22 | |
| 8509427895 | Meiosis | When something is purposefully described as less than it is, normal for comic effect | 23 | |
| 8509427896 | Metonymy | When one term is substituted with another term | 24 | |
| 8509427897 | Mood | The feeling created in the reading | 25 | |
| 8509427898 | Shift | When a poem changes in tone or mood | 26 | |
| 8509427899 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 27 | |
| 8509427900 | Neologism | Taking two things and combining them to make something new. Ex. Vlog | 28 | |
| 8509427901 | Onomatopoeia | Sound effects | 29 | |
| 8509427902 | Oxymoron | Two words that contradict. Jumbo shrimp | 30 | |
| 8509427903 | Paradox | An oxymoron on a larger scale | 31 | |
| 8509427904 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 32 | |
| 8509427905 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | 33 | |
| 8509427906 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 34 | |
| 8509427907 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. | 35 | |
| 8509427908 | Speaker | The voice of a work | 36 | |
| 8509427909 | Symbol | Something that stands for something else | 37 | |
| 8509427910 | Structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work | 38 | |
| 8557849906 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 39 | |
| 8557959759 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 40 | |
| 8557959760 | Elegy (n) | A song or poem memorializing something or someone | 41 | |
| 8557959761 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 42 | |
| 8557959762 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 43 | |
| 8557959763 | haiku poem | Japanes verse three line of 5, 7, 5 syllables (Metered poetry) | 44 | |
| 8557959764 | iambic pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet. | 45 | |
| 8557959765 | lyric poetry | Personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings about the subject | 46 | |
| 8557959766 | meter | Unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of beats | 47 | |
| 8557959767 | narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story | 48 | |
| 8557959768 | Odes | Poems that express strong emotions about life | 49 | |
| 8557959769 | pastoral poetry | Idealizing the lives of shepherds and country folk | 50 | |
| 8557959770 | refrain (v) | to hold back | 51 | |
| 8557959771 | Repetition | Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity | 52 | |
| 8557959772 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 53 | |
| 8557959773 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem | 54 | |
| 8557959774 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 55 | |
| 8557959775 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 56 | |
| 8557959776 | perfect rhyme | Rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove) | 57 | |
| 8557959777 | slant rhyme | two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly | 58 | |
| 8557959778 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 59 | |
| 8558074846 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 60 | |
| 8558074847 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem | 61 | |
| 8558074848 | Petrarchan sonnet | poem that has one rhyming octave (8 lines) and one rhyming sestet (6 lines) | 62 | |
| 8558074849 | Shakespearean sonnet | A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 63 | |
| 8558074850 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 64 | |
| 8558074851 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 65 | |
| 8558074852 | Tercets | 3 line stanzas | 66 | |
| 8558074853 | Quatrain | 4 line stanza | 67 | |
| 8558074854 | Quintet | 5 line stanza | 68 | |
| 8558074855 | Sestet | 6 line stanza | 69 | |
| 8558074856 | Septet | 7 line stanza | 70 | |
| 8558074857 | Octave | 8 line stanza | 71 | |
| 8558074858 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 72 |
