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| 9841086231 | allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions ( Animal Farm) | 0 | |
| 9841086232 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 1 | |
| 9841086233 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 2 | |
| 9841086234 | apostrophe | a direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or Muse, or to some other power. So eloquent, just, and mighty Death" -Sir Walter Raleigh | 3 | |
| 9841086235 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 9841086236 | blank verse | any verse that doesn't rhyme. Blank verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter, which of all verse forms is closest to the Natural rhythms of English speech. | 5 | |
| 9841086237 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 6 | |
| 9841086238 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. "lean alone" | 7 | |
| 9841086239 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 8 | |
| 9841086240 | elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 9 | |
| 9841086241 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. " this government of the People, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth" | 10 | |
| 9841086242 | foot | the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the metric unit of a line | 11 | |
| 9841086243 | iambic foot | an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | 12 | |
| 9841086244 | trochaic foot | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 13 | |
| 9841086245 | free verse | poetry that doesn't follow a prescribed form butt is characterized by irregularity in the length of lines and a lack of a regular metrical pattern and Prime | 14 | |
| 9841086246 | jargon | vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people: medical doctors, computer analysts, teachers | 15 | |
| 9841086247 | juxtaposition | Placement of one idea next to its opposite to make it more dramatic. For example, playing the song What A Wonderful World while showing scenes of war and violence | 16 | |
| 9841086248 | lyric | any poem in which a speaker expresses intensely personal emotion or thoughts. | 17 | |
| 9841086249 | malapropism | comic word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar | 18 | |
| 9841086250 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 19 | |
| 9841086251 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. For example, the crown spoke with authority about the growing crisis. Brown is not literal but represents a king or queen | 20 | |
| 9841086252 | metric line | a line named according to the number of feet composing it, starting with monometer, a line of one foot, followed by dimeter, trimester, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter. | 21 | |
| 9841086253 | ode | a lyric poem that is serious and subject in treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate and it's stanzaic structure. | 22 | |
| 9841086254 | panegyric | a literary expression of praise, for example, O Captain my Captain by Walt Whitman | 23 | |
| 9841086255 | pastoral | a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | 24 | |
| 9841086256 | ploce | A repetition of a word or phrase in the same line of poetry. " make war upon themselves, blood against blood, self against self" | 25 | |
| 9841086257 | limited point of view | a perspective confined to a single character, whether a first person or a third person | 26 | |
| 9841086258 | omniscient point of view | the narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all | 27 | |
| 9841086259 | objective point of view | the narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside | 28 | |
| 9841086260 | petrarchan or Italian sonnet | the octave is the problem, and the sestet is the resolution | 29 | |
| 9841086261 | English or Shakespearean sonnet | Organized into three quatrains and a couplet, with a typical rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg | 30 | |
| 9841086262 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. "all hands on deck" (we assume the bodies of the sailors will follow) | 31 |
