4021144834 | Alliteration | repetition of same letter or sound (big beach ball) | 0 | |
4021149200 | Allusion | reference to someone/something | 1 | |
4021151728 | Anapest | three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed (I must finish my journey alone) | 2 | |
4021160451 | Apostrophe | addresses an imaginary character in his speech (Macbeth knife, O) | 3 | |
4021167329 | Assonance | two more more words repeat the same vowel sound but have different constant | 4 | |
4021175672 | Aubade | morning | 5 | |
4021177881 | Blank Verse | un-rhyming verse in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
4021180595 | Cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 7 | |
4021201539 | Caesura | a pause near the middle of a line | 8 | |
4021204253 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 9 | |
4021205184 | consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase (pitter patter) | 10 | |
4021208995 | Dactyl | foot in poetic meter, accented, unaccented, unaccented (humanly) | 11 | |
4021214098 | Denotation | in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 12 | |
4021215903 | Elegy | couplets written in honor of the deceased | 13 | |
4021219673 | Epic | long narrative (heroes) | 14 | |
4021224087 | End Rhyme | comes at end of two successive lines | 15 | |
4021225228 | End Stop Line | pause comes at the end of a sentence (punctuation) | 16 | |
4021227327 | Enjambment | moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark | 17 | |
4021229922 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing (Fired vs Let go) | 18 | |
4021235384 | Euphony | melody or loveliness in the sounds they create (Autumn) | 19 | |
4021239318 | Figurative Language | figures of speech, senses (metaphor, simile, allusions) | 20 | |
4021241639 | Foot | stressed and unstressed syllables | 21 | |
4021242789 | Free Verse | free form (meter and rhyme X) | 22 | |
4021244049 | Haiku | 5-7-5 | 23 | |
4021247650 | Heroic Couplet | rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter | 24 | |
4021251441 | Hexameter | a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls (foot) | 25 | |
4021254886 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 26 | |
4021255488 | Iamb | metrical foot used in various types of poetry (short long syllable) | 27 | |
4021258741 | Image | a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art | 28 | |
4021260395 | Internal Rhyme | middle words and its end words rhymes with each other | 29 | |
4021261709 | Irony | words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words | 30 | |
4021375596 | Litotes | understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions | 31 | |
4021376914 | Lyric | personally poem and or expression of feelings | 32 | |
4021377717 | metaphor | comparison | 33 | |
4021378130 | meter | stressed/unstressed syllable pattern | 34 | |
4021378780 | Metonymy | replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated | 35 | |
4021379523 | Narrative Poem | related events arranged into a logical sequence | 36 | |
4021380871 | Octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines | 37 | |
4021382030 | Ode | praises people or ideas | 38 | |
4021384010 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 39 | |
4021385831 | Oxymoron | two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect (cruel kindness) | 40 | |
4021388041 | Paradox | statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth ( I am nobody) | 41 | |
4021389735 | Parody | exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 42 | |
4021391044 | Patrol | poem about Shepherds and field | 43 | |
4021393289 | Pathetic Fallacy | attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature | 44 | |
4021393998 | Pentameter | five strong metrical feet or beats | 45 | |
4021394784 | Personification | giving inhuman things life like qualities | 46 | |
4021395358 | Prose | normal speech | 47 | |
4021396161 | Quatrain | verse with four lines, with a separate theme | 48 | |
4021411280 | Scansion | put in stress marks | 49 | |
4021412996 | Sestet | octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines | 50 | |
4021413600 | Simile | comparisons using like and as q | 51 | |
4021414781 | Sonnet (English (couplet) and Italian) | 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter | 52 | |
4021417999 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables | 53 | |
4021419304 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 54 | |
4021421405 | Symbol | represents larger ideal | 55 | |
4021421406 | Synecdoche | made to represent the whole or vice versa (as in Cleveland won by six runs meaning "Cleveland's baseball team" ) | 56 | |
4021422576 | Tetrameter | a verse of four stresses | 57 | |
4021423130 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc | 58 | |
4021423860 | Trochee | stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one | 59 | |
4021420610 | Symbol | 60 |
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