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| 2534600069 | rhyme | repetition of like sounds at regular intervals | 0 | |
| 2534606961 | end rhyme | rhyme at end of a verse line | 1 | |
| 2534610199 | internal rhyme | rhyme within a verse | 2 | |
| 2534611711 | rhyme scheme | patterns of rhyme within a unit of verse (ex. abab) | 3 | |
| 2534619302 | ballad | simple poem, usually singing, quatrains using abcd | 4 | |
| 2534627964 | elegy | mourns the death of an individual, laments the loss | 5 | |
| 2534638478 | ode | irregular metrical form, usually a song | 6 | |
| 2534643961 | pastoral | poem written about the nature | 7 | |
| 2534645674 | Sonnet | 14 lines in iambic pentameter Italian/Petrarchan: 2 sections: octave and sestet (abba, abba, cde, cde) English/Shakespearean: 4 sections: 3 quatrains, 1 couplet | 8 | |
| 2534662557 | villanelle | french, 19 lines: 5 tercets, 1 quatrain 2 rhymes dominate and repeat (line 1 in lines 6, 12, 18)(line 3 repeated in 9, 15, 19) aba aba... | 9 | |
| 2534675138 | blank verse | un-rhymed iambic pentameter | 10 | |
| 2534676532 | free verse | no rhyme or meter | 11 | |
| 2534680491 | iamb | unstressed, stress | 12 | |
| 2534682464 | trochee | stress, unstress | 13 | |
| 2534688388 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstress | 14 | |
| 2534840998 | scansion | analysis of rhyme and meter | 15 | |
| 2534702825 | foot | combination of stresses in a line | 16 | |
| 2534704213 | iamb | a type of metric foot | 17 | |
| 2534709802 | meter | recognizable rhyme in a line of verse | 18 | |
| 2534719016 | scheme (figures of speech) | a deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words for rhetorical purpose | 19 | |
| 2534749186 | trope | deviation from normal meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 2534756182 | antithesis | contrast of words/ideas in balanced construction | 21 | |
| 2534759986 | hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement | 22 | |
| 2534763021 | irony | verbal: says one thing, means another dramatic: audience knows something the character doesn't situation: different result than expected | 23 | |
| 2534770129 | metaphor | comparison of 2 things | 24 | |
| 2534771236 | simile | comparison using like or as | 25 | |
| 2534774610 | metonymy | substituting a word for another word closely associated | 26 | |
| 2534782819 | paradox | a statement that seems self contradictory | 27 | |
| 2534784329 | anaphora | repetition of a word at beginning of two or more phrases | 28 |
