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| 3045634268 | Action | The principle subject or story, what character does in a play, short story or a fiction prose. Ex: Owen hit Tabby | 0 | |
| 3045640600 | Alliteration | Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound. Ex: Help head, help heart | 1 | |
| 3045646362 | Elegy | A poem of death Ex: Richard Cory | 2 | |
| 3045647576 | Meter | A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with unstressed syllables. | 3 | |
| 3045653765 | Stanza | A section of poem, marked by extra line spacing before and after, often has a single patter of after and/or rhyme. | 4 | |
| 3045662083 | Plot | The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fictions. Ex: Owen Meany's nonchronological plot allowed the author to highlight the key events. | 5 | |
| 3045663544 | Sonnet | A fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter, there's Italian and Shakespearean variation. | 6 | |
| 3045668710 | Syntax | Word order, the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses and sentences. | 7 | |
| 3045672431 | Tone | The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood. | 8 | |
| 3045675804 | Ballad Stanza | A common stanza form, consisting of a quatrain that alternates four feet lines and three feet lines. | 9 | |
| 3045680259 | Lines | Unit or language into which a poem or play is divided. | 10 | |
| 3045693871 | Narrative | Narrative poem tells a story. It has plot related by a narrator, though its plot might be based on actual rather than made-up story. Ex: Richard Cory | 11 | |
| 3045707369 | Lyrics | A short poem, usually no more than 50-60 lines, and often only a dozen lines, written in repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music. Ex: Nebraska | 12 | |
| 3045713157 | Dramatic | A poem structure t present a scene or series of scenes, as in a work of drama. Ex: The ruined maid | 13 | |
| 3045716513 | Auditor | An imaginary listener within a literary work, as opposed to the actual reader or audience. Ex: Nebraska | 14 | |
| 3045721698 | Couplet | Two lines, the second line immediately following the first, of the same metrical length end in a rhyme to form a couplet unit. Ex: She was a little tense That notice made no sense | 15 | |
| 3045727054 | Enjambment | In poetry, the technique of running over from one line to the next without stop. | 16 | |
| 3045730714 | Epics | A long narrative poem that celebrates the achievements of mighty hero and heroines, usually in founding a nation or developing a culture, and uses elevated language and a grand high style. Ex: Odyssey | 17 | |
| 3045736455 | Ballad | A verse narrative that is, or originally was, meant to be sung. | 18 | |
| 3045738756 | Characters | Any representation of an individual being represented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation. | 19 | |
| 3045743774 | Poetry | Patterned arrangement of language, generate rhythm, express or evoke emotion or feelings and all alone in a concentrated way or with intensity. | 20 | |
| 3045749084 | Figure of speech | Any word or phrase that creates a "figure" in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or oder of words, by comparing or identifying one thing with another. | 21 | |
| 3045755448 | Romances | Any literary work, especially a long work of prose fiction, characterized by a nonrealistic and idealizing use of imagination. | 22 | |
| 3045760596 | Paraphrase | A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else. | 23 | |
| 3045763248 | Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces. A conflict is external when it pits a character against something or someone outside himself or herself, another character or characters or something in nature or society. A conflict is internal when the opposing forces are drives, impulses, or parts of a single character. Ex: To kill a mocking bird | 24 | |
| 3045779712 | Ode | A lyric poem characterized by a serious topic and formal tone but without a prescribed formal pattern that the speaker talks about, and often to, an especially reversed person or thing. | 25 | |
| 3045786883 | Speaker | 1, The person who is the voice of a poem. 2, Anyone who speaks dialogue in a work of fiction, poetry or drama. | 26 | |
| 3045791259 | Rhyme | The modulation of stressed and unstressed elements in the flow of speech. Ex: Then and when | 27 | |
| 3045799522 | Diction | The choice of a particular word as opposed to others. | 28 | |
| 3045801900 | Setting | The time and place of the action in a work of fiction, poetry and drama. | 29 | |
| 3045805007 | Situation | The basic circumstances depicted in a literary work, especially when the story, play or poem begins or at a specific later moment in the action. | 30 | |
| 3045821816 | Theme | 1. Broadly and commonly, a topic explored in a literary work 2. More narrowly and properly, the insight about a topic communicated in a work. | 31 | |
| 3045901204 | Villanelle | A verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stars, five tercets and one quatrain. The first and their line of the first tercet rhyme with each other, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the las two lines of the concluding quatrain. Repetition of select lines. Ex: One art | 32 | |
| 3045983603 | Limerick | A light or humorous poem or subgenera of poems consisting of mainly anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth lines are three feet, third and fourth lines are two feet. Rhyme scheme is aabba. Ex: There was a young girl from St. Paul | 33 | |
| 3045854955 | Palindrome | A word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers. Ex: Myth | 34 | |
| 3045889609 | Sestina | An elaborate verse structure written in blank verse that consists of sex stanzas of six lines each followed by a three line stanza. The final word of each line in the first stanza appear in the variable order in the next five stanza and are repeated in the middle and at the end of the three lines in the final stanza. Ex: Sestina | 35 | |
| 3045856587 | Sound poem | Poems that place especially heavy emphasis on sound and aural patterning. Ex: The worlds Plum | 36 | |
| 3045866107 | Spenserian stanza | A stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter and a ninth line of iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is ababbcbbc. From Edmund Spenser. Ex: The Faerie Queene | 37 | |
| 3045874679 | Terza rima | "Third rhyme" in Italian. A verse form consisting of three-line stanza that the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third of the next. Ex: Ode to the west wind | 38 | |
| 3045879868 | Heroic couplet | Two consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter, the meter of a heroic couplet is iambic pentameter. Ex: Sound and sense | 39 | |
| 3045910456 | Caesura | A short pause within a line of poetry, often but not always signaled by punctuation. | 40 | |
| 3045913791 | Scansion | The technique of listening to and making stressed and unstressed syllables, counting the syllables and feet. | 41 | |
| 3045921783 | Monometer-octameter | one foot-eight feet | 42 | |
| 3045924451 | Rising or falling | The above feet either begin or end with the stressed syllables, as if they lose or gain momentum or height. Iambic and anapestic are called rising meters, and trochaic and dactylic are called falling meters. | 43 | |
| 3045931360 | Anapestic | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one. UUI Ex: Comprehend | 44 | |
| 3045937087 | Spondee | Two stressed syllables. Spondaic feet interrupt the prevailing rhythm, emphasizing a syllable that we would expect to be unstressed. II Ex: Don't go | 45 | |
| 3045945666 | Pyrrhic | Two unstressed syllables. Pyrrhic feet similarly interrupt the expecting or falling beats, placing an unstressed syllable where we expect an emphasis. UU Ex: Is a | 46 | |
| 3045955031 | Iamb | An unstressed syllables followed by a stressed on. UI Ex: Believe | 47 | |
| 3045960542 | Trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. IU Ex: Meter | 48 | |
| 3045962585 | Dactyl | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. IUU Ex: Dinner time | 49 | |
| 3045965041 | Foot | The basic unit of poetic meter, consisting of any various fixed patterns of one to three stressed and unstressed syllables. A foot may contain more than one word or just one syllables of a multi syllables word. | 50 | |
| 3045976278 | Onomatopeia | A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. Ex: Buzz | 51 | |
| 3045978601 | Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels, especially in stressed syllables in nearby word. | 52 | |
| 3045996910 | Imagery | Any sensory detail or evocation in a work. More narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. maybe describes as auditory, tactile, visual or olfactory depends on hearing, touch, vision or smell. | 53 | |
| 3046007024 | Shakespearean sonnet | Consists of three quatrains and a couplet and often rhymes abab cdcd efef gg. | 54 | |
| 3046009883 | Italian sonnet | Consists of eight rhyme linked lines plus six rhyme linked lines, often with either an abbaabba cedced or aabbacddc defdef rhyme scheme. | 55 | |
| 3046016858 | Quatrian | A stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an abab pattern | 56 | |
| 3046021920 | True rhyme | Repletion or correspondence of the end sounds of vowels, a category of rhymes. | 57 | |
| 3046025656 | Slant rhyme | Rhyme that is slightly off or only approximate, usually because word's final consonant sounds correspond, but not the vowel that proceed them. Ex: Dark and Heart | 58 | |
| 3046032406 | Eye rhyme | Words that don't actually rhyme but look like they do because of their similar spelling. Ex: Bear and ear | 59 | |
| 3046035936 | Internal rhyme | Occurs when a word within a line of poetry rhyme with another word in the same or adjacent lines. Ex: Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white | 60 | |
| 3046041884 | Rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, often noted by small letters, such as abab or abba. | 61 | |
| 3046045475 | End rhyme | Occurs when the last words in two or more lines of a poem rhyme with each other. Ex: She was a little tense That notice made no sense | 62 | |
| 3046049102 | Occasional poem | A poem written for or about a specific occasion, is referential and refers to a certain historical time or events. | 63 | |
| 3046052860 | Symbol | A word, place, character or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. | 64 | |
| 3046081886 | Traditional symbol | One that recurs frequently in and beyond literature and is thus immediately recognizable to those who belong to a given culture. Ex: The rose | 65 | |
| 3046090390 | Invented symbol | Poems sometimes created a symbol out of a thing, action, or event that has no previously agreed-upon syllables significance. Ex: Th leap | 66 | |
| 3046094941 | Analogy | A comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Ex: Dewdrop and human soul | 67 | |
| 3046098168 | Simile | An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, in contrast with a metaphor that figuratively makes the comparison by stating outright that one thing is another. Ex: Love is like a rose | 68 | |
| 3046104848 | Dramatic irony | A incongruity between what we expect and what actually occurs, out of observation. | 69 | |
| 3046118422 | Personification | A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities or reactions. Ex: Because i could not stop for Death | 70 | |
| 3046108528 | Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. | 71 | |
| 3046112913 | Free verse | Poetry based on the natural rhythms or phrases and normal pauses rather than artificial constraints of metrical feet. | 72 | |
| 3046123476 | Irony | A trope in which a speaker makes a statement that its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the word ostensibly express. | 73 | |
| 3046128474 | Metonymy | Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea. | 74 | |
| 3046131995 | Carpe diem | Seize the day in Latin. A common theme of literary works that emphasize the brevity of life and the need to work the most of the present. | 75 | |
| 3046138054 | Denotation | A word's direct and literal meanings, as opposed to connotation. | 76 | |
| 3046141962 | Connotation | What is suggested by a word, apart from what it literally means or how it is defined in the dictionary. | 77 | |
| 3046147663 | Symbolic poem | A poem that the use of symbols is so pervasive and internally consistent hat the reference to the outside world being symbolized becomes secondary. Ex: The sick rose | 78 | |
| 3046156597 | Created persona | Reflects the poet's idea that could put in but its's not poet himself. | 79 | |
| 3046163686 | T: Title | Examine the title before reading the poem. Use the first line if there is no title. | 80 | |
| 3046167456 | P: Paraphrase | Put the poem in your own words. Paraphrase is more of a word-for-word translation than a summary. | 81 | |
| 3046171309 | C: Connotation | Examine author's diction and use of figurative language. | 82 | |
| 3046175705 | A: Attitude | What is the author or speaker's attitude or tone? How do you know? | 83 | |
| 3046179951 | S: Shifts | Note shifts in tone, subject, attitude, mood, etc. What effect do these shifts have on the meaning of the poem? | 84 | |
| 3046185032 | T: Title again | Look at the title again now that you have read the poem. Address las line or couplet. | 85 | |
| 3046188594 | T: Theme | What is the human truth of the poem | 86 | |
| 3463370618 | D: Diction | The connotation of the word choice | 87 | |
| 3463373537 | I: Images | Vivid appeals to understanding through the sense - concrete language. | 88 | |
| 3463379147 | D: Details | Facts that are included or those that are omitted. | 89 | |
| 3463386149 | L: Language | The overall use of language, such as formal, clinical, jargon. Consider the language to be the entire body of words used in a text, not simply isolated bits of diction. | 90 | |
| 3463400875 | S: Sentence structure | How structure affects the reader's attitude. | 91 |
