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| 12714883520 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 12714884656 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 1 | |
| 12714886009 | consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 12714889604 | rhyme | the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds | 3 | |
| 12714895417 | masculine rhyme | when the rhyme sounds involve only one syllable | 4 | |
| 12714896571 | feminine rhyme | when the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables | 5 | |
| 12714898727 | internal rhyme | when one or more rhyming words are within the line | 6 | |
| 12714901484 | end rhyme | when the rhyming words are at the ends of lines | 7 | |
| 12714902701 | approximate rhymes | words with any kind of sound similarity | 8 | |
| 12714917204 | rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 9 | |
| 12714919106 | stressed | emphasized or accented | 10 | |
| 12714921148 | rhetorical stresses | the stressing of words to clarify intentions or feelings | 11 | |
| 12714924305 | end-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation | 12 | |
| 12714925358 | run-on line | one in which the sense of the line moves on without pause into the next line | 13 | |
| 12714926969 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 14 | |
| 12714927961 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 15 | |
| 12714930465 | prose poem | a sort of poetry that depends entirely on ordinary prose rhythms | 16 | |
| 12714935591 | meter | identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our feet to | 17 | |
| 12714937702 | foot | one unit of meter (usually consists of one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables) | 18 | |
| 12714962479 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 19 | |
| 12714963604 | metrical variations | departures from the basic metrical pattern | 20 | |
| 12714965415 | substitution | replacing the regular foot with another one | 21 | |
| 12714966989 | extrametrical syllables | in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines | 22 | |
| 12714968415 | truncation | the omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line | 23 | |
| 12714969555 | scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 24 | |
| 12714971664 | expected rhythm | the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem | 25 | |
| 12714972784 | heard rhythm | the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally | 26 | |
| 12714974264 | grammatical or rhetorical pauses | a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation | 27 | |
| 12714975178 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 28 | |
| 12714978879 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean | 29 | |
| 12714981233 | phonetic intensives | words whose sound connects with their meaning | 30 | |
| 12714989114 | synesthesia | the stimulation of two or more senses simultaneously | 31 | |
| 12715543157 | structure | arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, sentences of a poem | 32 | |
| 12715544764 | form | external pattern or shape of a poem | 33 | |
| 12715546044 | continuous form | that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning | 34 | |
| 12715547842 | stanzaic form | poet writes in a series of stanzas with same metrical pattern and rhyme scheme | 35 | |
| 12715551576 | fixed form | a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem | 36 | |
| 12715552565 | sonnet | a fixed poem of fourteen lines usually iambic pentameter | 37 | |
| 12715554172 | Italian sonnet | divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes | 38 | |
| 12715555444 | English sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 39 | |
| 12715557884 | villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 40 |
