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| 5877693150 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 0 | |
| 5877712794 | metonymy | substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 1 | |
| 5877712795 | masculine ending | refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable | 2 | |
| 5877713129 | feminine ending | a line ending in a stressless syllable | 3 | |
| 5877765692 | perfect rhyme | a case in which two words rhyme in such a way that their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical e.g. sight and light, right and might, rose and dose | 4 | |
| 5877793582 | slant/off/imperfect/half rhyme | It can be defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. For instance, in words such as "shape/keep" the consonance is very strong. | 5 | |
| 5877795195 | eye rhyme | a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, e.g., love and move. | 6 | |
| 5877795196 | internal rhyme | a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. | 7 | |
| 5877795765 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 8 | |
| 5877795766 | caesura | a pause near the middle of a line | 9 | |
| 5877796167 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 10 | |
| 5877796653 | absolute | a phrase that modifies a noun in a sentence, but it is not connected to the sentence by a conjunction. It is set off with a comma only, and it could be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence. (e.g. Marshall held onto the ball, his fingers squeezing it tightly.) | 11 | |
| 5877796654 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 12 | |
| 5877797411 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" | 13 | |
| 5877799598 | apostrophe | when a character in a literary work speaks to an object, an idea, or someone who doesn't exist as if it is a living person. | 14 | |
| 5877799599 | archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 15 | |
| 5877800388 | bildungsroman | concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. | 16 | |
| 5877800389 | conceit | fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 17 | |
| 5877800755 | didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 18 | |
| 5877802788 | assonance | takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | 19 | |
| 5877805015 | consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 20 | |
| 5877805016 | dissonance | the use of impolite, harsh-sounding and unusual words in poetry; harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | 21 | |
| 5877805584 | elegy | as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual | 22 | |
| 5877805585 | epigram | a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement. It has originated from a Greek word, epigramma, meaning inscription or to inscribe | 23 | |
| 5877786677 | ellipsis | the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction. | 24 | |
| 5877805968 | euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | 25 | |
| 5877805969 | juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. | 26 | |
| 5877806551 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 27 | |
| 5877807411 | satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. | 28 | |
| 5877807778 | pedantic | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching. | 29 | |
| 5877786221 | dramatic monologue | a poetic form in which a single character,addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment,reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation. | 30 | |
| 5877812087 | semantics | the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning,of a word, sign, sentence, etc. | 31 | |
| 5877812516 | pathetic fallacy | giving inanimate object human traits and feelings. | 32 | |
| 5877807412 | syntax | the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. | 33 | |
| 5877813065 | simple sentence | a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday. | 34 | |
| 5877813466 | compound sentence | a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause. | 35 | |
| 5877814872 | cumulative sentence | Starts with independent clause and then adds subordinate elements. | 36 | |
| 5877814873 | periodic sentence | Independent clause at the end with subordinates at the start. | 37 | |
| 5877812517 | complex sentence | a sentence containing one or more dependent clauses in addition to the main clause. | 38 | |
| 5877783879 | blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. | 39 | |
| 5877785591 | end-stopped lines | Pause comes at the end of syntatic unit with a colon, semicolon, period, or full stop. | 40 | |
| 5877783880 | ballad | a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing or any poem written in similar style. | 41 | |
| 5877782983 | ode | a poem intended to be sung. | 42 | |
| 5877782984 | lyric | having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a song like outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry. | 43 | |
| 5877777180 | stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. | 44 | |
| 5877777181 | couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. | 45 | |
| 5877776674 | sonnet | a poem, properly expressive of a single,complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines,usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite scheme. | 46 | |
| 5877776675 | italian/petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabbaand of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 47 | |
| 5877774506 | english/shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 48 | |
| 5877772074 | pastoral | poems that are set in beautiful rural landscapes | 49 | |
| 5877771640 | prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language,without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse or matter-of-fact, commonplace, or dull expression,quality, discourse, etc. | 50 | |
| 5877771641 | tragic & dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation ofa drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 51 | |
| 5877815980 | free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. | 52 | |
| 5877771142 | cosmic irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations; also, the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man; also called irony of fate. | 53 | |
| 5877814412 | parallelism | the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect. | 54 | |
| 5877814413 | iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. | 55 | |
| 5877771143 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 56 | |
| 5877770726 | situational irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 57 | |
| 5877787088 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 58 | |
| 5877770727 | structural irony | Irony to the overall work through naive hero or unreliable narrator. | 59 |
