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| 7376804345 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 0 | |
| 7376815084 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 1 | |
| 7376824850 | Antithesis | opposite and is used as a literary device to put two contrasting ideas together | 2 | |
| 7376854472 | Apostrophe | A punctuation mark used to indicate possession or the omission of letters or numbers | 3 | |
| 7376897842 | Assonance | In poetry the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 4 | |
| 7376953324 | Ballad Meter | Four line stanzas usually rhyming ABCB with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three | 5 | |
| 7376998135 | Blank Verse | Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7377008980 | Caesura | Break between words within a metrical foot | 7 | |
| 7377020338 | Conceit | Metaphor comparing two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. | 8 | |
| 7377034420 | Consonance | agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions | 9 | |
| 7377048232 | Couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit | 10 | |
| 7377087844 | Didactic Poem | Refers to poems that contain a clear moral or message or purpose to convey to it's readers | 11 | |
| 7377119065 | Elegy | A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 12 | |
| 7377132397 | End-Stopping | Occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon; | 13 | |
| 7377146832 | Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 14 | |
| 7377157849 | Extended Metaphor | Author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked, tenors,and grounds throughout a poem or story. | 15 | |
| 7377174231 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope | 16 | |
| 7377193222 | 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 | 17 | |
| 7377292995 | Meter | Unit of rhythm in poetry the pattern of the beats | 18 | |
| 7377323448 | Metonomy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that one for the thing meant, | 19 | |
| 7377338022 | Narrative Poem | Form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse | 20 | |
| 7377348530 | Octave | a series of eight notes occupying the interval between two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other | 21 | |
| 7377356736 | Sestet | Last six lines of a sonnet | 22 | |
| 7377361662 | Paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 23 | |
| 7377370208 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning | 24 | |
| 7377393104 | Poetic Foot | Unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter. | 25 | |
| 7377416930 | Iambic | Defined as a foot containing unaccented and short syllables followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem | 26 | |
| 7377450369 | Trochaic | Type of verse that consists of or features trochees | 27 | |
| 7377454728 | Spondaic | Having a spondee as it's fifth foot | 28 | |
| 7377461396 | Dactylic | Dactylic Verse | 29 | |
| 7377465423 | Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 30 | |
| 7377476754 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes | 31 | |
| 7377480007 | Refrain | Stop oneself from doing something | 32 | |
| 7377483831 | Rhyme Royal | Rhyming Stanza form | 33 | |
| 7377500674 | Monometer | Instrument for measuring the pressure acting on a column of fluid. | 34 | |
| 7377543612 | Dimeter | Any line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet because di means two | 35 | |
| 7377563072 | Trimeter | device that is defined as a meter of a line that consists of three iambic feet | 36 | |
| 7377571190 | Hexameter | Line of verse containing six feet, usually dactyls | 37 | |
| 7377595394 | Pentameter | Literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats | 38 | |
| 7377607491 | Tetrameter | Line of four metrical feet | 39 | |
| 7377609871 | Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, | 40 | |
| 7377614172 | Tercet | Set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet | 41 | |
| 7377625513 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 42 | |
| 7377631096 | Villanelle | Nineteen line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 43 | |
| 7377643234 | Tone | General Character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation | 44 |
