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| 3565769278 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 3565769279 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 1 | |
| 3565769280 | Blank Verse | An un-rhyming verse written in iambic parameter | 2 | |
| 3565769281 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics | 3 | |
| 3565769282 | Canon | A collection of works by which others are measured in terms of literary skill and value | 4 | |
| 3565769283 | Diction | Choice of words, especially with regards to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | 5 | |
| 3565769284 | Free Verse | Poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme | 6 | |
| 3565769285 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 7 | |
| 3565769286 | Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 8 | |
| 3565769287 | Irony | A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character | 9 | |
| 3565769288 | Open Verse | Uses techniques that blast open the possibilities of words on the printed page | 10 | |
| 3565769289 | Diaspora | The dispersal of people from their homeland | 11 | |
| 3565769290 | Anapest | Made up of three syllables: two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | 12 | |
| 3565769291 | Pastoral | A literary work dealing with shepherds or rural life | 13 | |
| 3565769292 | Villanelle | Consists of 19 lines divided into 5 tercets and 1 quatrain | 14 | |
| 3565769293 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named | 15 | |
| 3565769294 | Paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition | 16 | |
| 3565769295 | Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 17 | |
| 3565769296 | Rhythm | Demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables | 18 | |
| 3565769297 | Meter | A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse | 19 | |
| 3565769298 | Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society | 20 | |
| 3565769299 | Symbol | Signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings | 21 | |
| 3565769300 | Synesthesia | Presents ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense | 22 | |
| 3565769301 | Tone | An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 23 | |
| 3565769302 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds | 24 | |
| 3565769303 | Denotation | Literal or dictionary meanings of a word | 25 | |
| 3565769304 | Connotation | A meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing it describes explicitly | 26 | |
| 3565769305 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 27 | |
| 3565769306 | Chiasmus | Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures | 28 | |
| 3565769307 | Litote | A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives | 29 | |
| 3565769308 | Terza rima | A poem with an eleven syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, dd | 30 | |
| 3565769309 | Spondee | A beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables | 31 | |
| 3565769310 | Scansion | Th dividing of verses into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables | 32 | |
| 3565769311 | Assonance | Two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonants sounds | 33 | |
| 3565769312 | Cosmic Irony | The idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations | 34 | |
| 3565769313 | Internal Rhyme | A poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other | 35 | |
| 3565769314 | Mixed Metaphor | A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculously effect | 36 | |
| 3565769315 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme that matches two or more syllables | 37 | |
| 3565769316 | Epithet | A descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making them more prominent | 38 | |
| 3565769317 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effects | 39 | |
| 3565769318 | Troche | A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one in English | 40 | |
| 3565769319 | Syntax | The way words and phrases are arranged to make a complete sentence | 41 | |
| 3565769320 | Metaphor | Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 42 | |
| 3565769321 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | 43 | |
| 3565769322 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, idea, or thing | 44 | |
| 3565769323 | Analogy | A literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections | 45 | |
| 3565769324 | Conceit | An extended metaphor with complex logic | 46 | |
| 3565769325 | Concrete Language | Language that refers to tangible, qualities or characteristics | 47 | |
| 3565769326 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman | 48 | |
| 3565769327 | Euphony | Pleasing effect to the ear | 49 | |
| 3565769328 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 50 | |
| 3565769329 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 51 | |
| 3565769330 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 52 | |
| 3565769331 | Rhyme | A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems | 53 | |
| 3565769332 | Polysyndeton | The use of several conjunction in close succession | 54 | |
| 3565769333 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different sense | 55 |
