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| 12004103877 | soliloquy | one person's long speech in a play | 0 | |
| 12004114378 | paradox | two things that sound like they shouldn't go together (similar to oxymoron) | 1 | |
| 12004126096 | personification | giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 2 | |
| 12004179682 | ambiguity | unclear, a text that argues both ways | 3 | |
| 12004209348 | dramatic irony | irony understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 4 | |
| 12004229732 | versification | how a poem is structured (umbrella for meter, rhyme length etc.) | 5 | |
| 12004271038 | paradigm | the perfect example of something | 6 | |
| 12004277751 | rhetoric | the art of persuasion (trump has a specific rhetoric) | 7 | |
| 12004285621 | heroic couplets | couplets (2 rhyming lines) | 8 | |
| 12004293040 | ballad meter | a poem that tells a story (w/ 4 lines of iambic pentameter) | 9 | |
| 12004331472 | Different meters | Iambic meter (unstressed/stressed) Trochaic meter (stressed/unstressed) Spondaic meter, (stressed/stressed) Anapestic meter (unstressed/unstressed/ stressed) Dactylic meter(stressed/unstressed/unstressed) | 10 | |
| 12004414395 | free verse | unrhymed, no meter | 11 | |
| 12004422294 | blank verse | unrhymed, iambic pentameter ( 10 beats per line) | 12 | |
| 12004450213 | terza rima | triplets especially in iambs that rhyme aha,bcb, cdc, etc. | 13 | |
| 12004475230 | Petrarchan sonnet | octet + sestet, volta in between, call and response | 14 | |
| 12004497791 | elizabethan sonnet | 3 quatrains + couplet, volta in between, variations on a theme | 15 | |
| 12004552340 | Volta | The turning point in a sonnet | 16 | |
| 12004568292 | slant/half/off rhyme | end rhyme that is not exact but approximate and is not as satisfying in a poem | 17 | |
| 12004608978 | full rhyme | A pair of words which end with the exact sounding vowels and consonants | 18 | |
| 12004614267 | meter | rhythm of a poem | 19 | |
| 12004661013 | internal rhyme | rhyme in the middle of a line | 20 | |
| 12004666144 | feminine rhyme | rhyme between words that have more than one syllable ( stereotype that women are more complicated) | 21 | |
| 12004682397 | masculine rhyme | single syllable rhyme | 22 | |
| 12004689290 | allusion | reference to something outside the text | 23 | |
| 12004703850 | synecdoche/metonymy | part represents the whole | 24 | |
| 12004733227 | periodic sentence | the heart of the sentence is at the end of the line and its made of a bunch of modifiers before the main point | 25 | |
| 12004750247 | enjambment | a thought continues onto the next line (smooth and fluid) | 26 | |
| 12004762458 | end stopped | thought ends at the end of a line (gives the opposite effect as enjambment as more choppy) | 27 | |
| 12004864857 | caesura | pause in the middle of a line | 28 | |
| 12004876569 | epistolary | told through letters | 29 | |
| 12004884529 | bildungsroman | coming of age novel | 30 | |
| 12004892275 | metaphysical conceit | extended metaphor | 31 | |
| 12004897878 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant (example: going to the ladies room) | 32 | |
| 12004944687 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 33 | |
| 12004957601 | Nature being sympathetic | nature resembles thoughts or feelings occurring in the poem | 34 | |
| 12088489955 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 35 | |
| 12088489956 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 36 | |
| 12088717133 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 37 | |
| 12088748993 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 38 | |
| 12089663871 | iambic pentameter | poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable | 39 | |
| 12092059925 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 40 | |
| 12092066519 | important poetic devices to use | metaphor, imagery, structure, diction, antithesis, juxtaposition/duality, end-stopped or enjambment, full rhyme vs half-rhyme, free verse means to focus on seriousness and meaning | 41 |
