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| 13266782756 | Active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 13266782824 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
| 13266788274 | Alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence or a line of poetry. | 2 | |
| 13266790594 | Allusion | a reference to another person, another historical event, another work, and the like. | 3 | |
| 13418724776 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 13266797917 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 5 | |
| 13266797918 | Aphorism | a brief statement of opinion or elemental truth. | 6 | |
| 13266803310 | Apostrophe | direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some power. | 7 | |
| 13327113974 | Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within a group of words or lines. | 8 | |
| 13327113975 | Blank Verse | any verse that isn't rhymed | 9 | |
| 13327120590 | Caesura | a pause in a line of poetry in order to make the meaning clear or to follow the natural rhythm of speech. | 10 | |
| 13327120591 | Connotation | the associations or moods attached to a word. | 11 | |
| 13327126947 | Consonance | the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel. | 12 | |
| 13327126948 | Couplet | a pair of rhymed lines. | 13 | |
| 13327132368 | Denotation | the dictionary definition of a word. | 14 | |
| 13327132369 | Dialect | a regional speech pattern. | 15 | |
| 13327142690 | Diction | word choice; the specific words an author uses in his or her writing. | 16 | |
| 13327142691 | Elegy | a formal meditative poem or lament for the dead. | 17 | |
| 13327147806 | Ellipses | Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted | 18 | |
| 13327147861 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 19 | |
| 13327154467 | Euphemism | to use an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some. | 20 | |
| 13327154468 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 21 | |
| 13327159875 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 22 | |
| 13327165954 | Hyperbole | exaggeration of an event or feeling | 23 | |
| 13327165955 | Imagery | language that appeals to one or another of the five senses | 24 | |
| 13327168839 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 25 | |
| 13327168840 | Jargon | a pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people. | 26 | |
| 13327176335 | Juxstaposition | the placement of one idea next to its opposite to make it more dramatic | 27 | |
| 13327179361 | Lyric | any poem in which a speaker expresses intensely personal emotion or thoughts. | 28 | |
| 13327179362 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 29 | |
| 13327182807 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 30 | |
| 13327182808 | Meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or the units of stressed patterns. | 31 | |
| 13327187585 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 32 | |
| 13327187586 | Metric Line | A line named according to the number of feet composing it | 33 | |
| 13327191413 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 34 | |
| 13327191414 | Paradox | a figure of speech that seeks to create mental ambiguity, which then forces the reader to pause and seek clarity | 35 | |
| 13327195280 | Parllelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clause | 36 | |
| 13327198549 | Passive Voice | The subject of the sentence receives the action. | 37 | |
| 13327198550 | Pastoral | a reference to or a description of simple country life. | 38 | |
| 13327203020 | Personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman things. | 39 | |
| 13327203095 | Ploce | Repeating a word within the same line or clause. | 40 | |
| 13327210965 | Point of View | the perspective from which the writer chooses to tell his or her story. | 41 | |
| 13327211041 | Pun | a play on words used to create humor or comic relief. | 42 | |
| 13327216070 | Refrain | a line, part of a line, or group of lines repeated in the course of a poem, sometimes with slight changes | 43 | |
| 13327216071 | Repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis. | 44 | |
| 13327224163 | Rhyme | the echo or imitation of a sound. | 45 | |
| 13327224164 | Rhythm | the sense of movement attributable to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 46 | |
| 13327228759 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices | 47 | |
| 13327228760 | Shift | a change in setting, tone, or speakers. | 48 | |
| 13327233048 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 49 | |
| 13327240174 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 50 | |
| 13327245444 | Sonnet | a fixed firm of fourteen lines, normally in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types. | 51 | |
| 13327250555 | Stanza | a group of lines that forms on division of a poem. | 52 | |
| 13327250556 | Symbol | an object that signifies something greater than itself. | 53 | |
| 13327254089 | Synechdote | using one part of an object to represent the entire object | 54 | |
| 13327254264 | Theme | an insight into life conveyed by a poem or story. | 55 | |
| 13327261040 | Verse | lines of poetry or metrical language in general, in contrast to prose. | 56 | |
| 13327261041 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 57 |
