9826205862 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas, quatrains, short lines, ABCB | 0 | |
9826211600 | Sonnet | 14 lines Petrarchan ABBA, Shakespearean ABAB. Ends in couplet | 1 | |
9826234869 | Ode | Song, irregular meter and rhyme, often addressed "To" someone or something | 2 | |
9826251526 | Blank Verse | Name for unrhymed iambic pentameter. An iambic is a metrical foot in which an instressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. In iambic pentameter there are five iambs per line making ten syllables. Think "unrhymed, but rhythmic." | 3 | |
9826293844 | Free Verse | Type of verse that contains a variety of line lengths, is unrhymed, and lacks traditional meter. | 4 | |
9826313446 | Iambic Meter (rhythm) | to STRIVE, to SEEK, to FIND, and NOT to Yield. | 5 | |
9826324462 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells" | 6 | |
9826354268 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 7 | |
9826375569 | Internal rhyme | Rhyming words not at the end of the lines, but inside lines | 8 | |
9826383308 | Slant rhyme or half rhyme | not really a rhyme but almost | 9 | |
9870625921 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person or a personified abstraction; such as liberty or love. ex: Ode to a Grecian Urn. | 10 | |
9870643656 | Simile | Comparison using a phrase introduced by like or as | 11 | |
9870647655 | Metaphor | Comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other. suggesting some similarity without "like or as" | 12 | |
9870658167 | Conceit | An elaborate metaphor that compares 2 things that are startlingly different. | 13 | |
9870672547 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement. | 14 | |
9870695141 | Apology | a defense, excuse, or justification in speech or writing , as for a cause or doctrine | 15 | |
9870708956 | Admonition | Advice or warning against fault or oversight | 16 | |
9870713027 | Eulogy | Speech or writing in honor of one deceased | 17 | |
9870717943 | Exposition | description and explanation of an idea | 18 |
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