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| 4388262992 | Alliteration | the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 0 | |
| 4388267847 | Allusion | the brief reference of a known event or person, place, or thing. | 1 | |
| 4388276627 | Ambiguity | word, phrase, or sentence that can have marathon one meaning; words or statements that causes confusion or vagueness. | 2 | |
| 4388303256 | Antithesis | two different ideas are put in one sentence to enforce a contrasting effect | 3 | |
| 4388306457 | Assonance | adjacent words that repeat the same vowel but start with different | 4 | |
| 4388319131 | Cacophony | mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds | 5 | |
| 4388325676 | Caesura | natural rhythm due to passes | 6 | |
| 4388363320 | Connotation | meaning implied other than the literal meaning; carries emotion or even culture | 7 | |
| 4388371477 | Consonance | repetitive sounds by consonants | 8 | |
| 4388377770 | Couplet | A pair of lines that rhyme and have the same meter | 9 | |
| 4388382865 | Denotation | literal meaning of something, as opposed to the feeling a word gives. | 10 | |
| 4388386706 | Diction | style of speaking or writing depending by the choice of words the author chooses | 11 | |
| 4388395310 | Dramatic Situation | situation in a dramatic work in which people are involved in conflicts that solicit the audience's empathetic involvement in their predicament. | 12 | |
| 4388400752 | Elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament of the dead | 13 | |
| 4388403794 | End Rhyme | when a poem has lines ending with words that sounds the same | 14 | |
| 4388410838 | Enjambment | the continuation of sentence without a pause beyond the end of the a line, couplet or stanza. | 15 | |
| 4388422116 | Euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear | 16 | |
| 4388423718 | Exact rhyme | a rhyme between two words or phrases satisfying the following conditions: the stresses vowel in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. | 17 | |
| 4388430586 | Extended metaphor | when an author exploits a single metaphor at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors or grounds throughout a work. | 18 | |
| 4388438828 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 19 | |
| 4388445370 | Foot | a combo of stressed and unstressed syllables (basic unit of a poem's meter) | 20 | |
| 4388448153 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 21 | |
| 4388454572 | Iamb, iambic | a metrical line that describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line, measured in small syllables called "feet" | 22 | |
| 4388460880 | Imagery | using figuratively language to represent objects to appeal our senses | 23 | |
| 4388463534 | Implied metaphor | Comparison between two ideas or objects but that have similar characteristics to one another. | 24 | |
| 4388471454 | Internal Rhyme | in poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines | 25 | |
| 4388480289 | Irony | Intended meaning of a word is different from the actual meaning. | 26 | |
| 4388483536 | Litotes | the intentional use of double negative to further affirm a positive | 27 | |
| 4388559409 | Masculine rhyme | a rhyme that matches only one syllable usually at the end of respective lines. often the final syllable is stressed | 28 | |
| 4388562891 | Metaphor | an indirect comparison between two unlike things (not like or as) | 29 | |
| 4388567754 | Meter | in poetry, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse | 30 | |
| 4388570772 | Ode | a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotions | 31 | |
| 4388575532 | Onomatopeia | Word that sounds like the sound it makes | 32 | |
| 4388576808 | Paradox | a seeming ugly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 33 | |
| 4388582640 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 34 | |
| 4388584244 | Personification | a figure of speech in who a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. | 35 | |
| 4388587903 | Phonetic internsives | A word whose sound, by obscure process, to some degree suggests its m meaning . As differentiated from onomatopoetic words, the meaning of phonetic intensives do not refer to sounds (ex: flicker) | 36 | |
| 4388598490 | Rhetorical Question | A question used to invoke thought, an answer is not expected | 37 | |
| 4388600461 | Simile | a direct comparison between two things using " like " or "as" | 38 | |
| 4388603758 | Slant rhyme | words that almost rhyme (ex: farm,-yard" or appear to the eye to do so (ex: aid-paid) | 39 | |
| 4388608789 | Sonnet | a poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes in english typically having ten syllables per line | 40 | |
| 4388611461 | speaker | a person who speaks (in poems, one addresses the speaker, not the author) | 41 | |
| 4388614576 | Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse | 42 | |
| 4388619908 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentence in a language | 43 | |
| 4388620884 | Theme | the central idea or main subject being discussed | 44 | |
| 4388628003 | Tone | is a literary compound of composition which shows the attitudes towards the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work, highlighted through diction | 45 | |
| 4388635829 | Volta | a turn or shift in thought/emotion/tone | 46 |
