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| 3372554665 | Doggerel | A term used for lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed | 0 | |
| 3372554666 | Paraphrase | Prose restatement of the the central ideas of a poem in your own language | 1 | |
| 3372554667 | Metaphor | Makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as | 2 | |
| 3372554668 | Jargon | Language relates to a particular group often defined by trade or profession | 3 | |
| 3372554669 | Persona | A speaker created by the poet | 4 | |
| 3372554670 | Speaker | Voice used by the author in the poem | 5 | |
| 3372554671 | Verse | Term used for lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern which are often rhymed | 6 | |
| 3372554672 | Anagrams | Words made from letters of other words | 7 | |
| 3372554673 | Theme | Central idea or meaning | 8 | |
| 3372554674 | Lyric | A brief poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker | 9 | |
| 3372554675 | Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story | 10 | |
| 3372554676 | Epic | A long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important deeds | 11 | |
| 3372554677 | Clichés | Ideas and expressions that have become tried and true from overuse | 12 | |
| 3372554678 | Stock Responses | Predictable, conventional reactions to language, characteristics, symbols, or situations | 13 | |
| 3372554679 | Sentimentality | Con reader into feeling someway about something bad | 14 | |
| 3372554680 | Diction | Choice of words | 15 | |
| 3372554681 | Poetic Diction | Use of elevated language over ordinary language | 16 | |
| 3372554682 | Formal Diction | Dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language | 17 | |
| 3372554683 | Middle Diction | Spoken by most educated people | 18 | |
| 3372554684 | Informal Diction | Relaxed conversational used everyday | 19 | |
| 3372554685 | Colloquially | Used in ordinary conversation language | 20 | |
| 3372554686 | Dialects | Spoke language by definable groups of people from particular geographical regions, economic groups, or social classes | 21 | |
| 3372554687 | Denotations | Literal, dictionary meaning of a word | 22 | |
| 3372554688 | Connotations | Associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meaning | 23 | |
| 3372554689 | Ambiguity | Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 24 | |
| 3372554690 | Syntax | Ordering or words into a meaningful verbal patterns | 25 | |
| 3372554691 | Tone | Writer's attitude toward the subject; the mood generated by all elements of a poem | 26 | |
| 3372554692 | Dramatic Monologue | Type of poem in which a character addresses a silent audience to reveal temperament or personality | 27 | |
| 3372554693 | Carpe Diem | "seize the day" | 28 | |
| 3372554694 | Allusion | Brief reference to a poem, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | 29 | |
| 3372554695 | Image | Language that addresses the senses | 30 | |
| 3372554696 | Figures of Speech | Way of saying one thing in terms of something else | 31 | |
| 3372554697 | Simile | Explicit comparison between two things by using like or as | 32 | |
| 3372554698 | Implied Metaphor | Does not explicitly say or identify the subject or something else | 33 | |
| 3372554699 | Extended Metaphor | A sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors | 34 | |
| 3372554700 | Controlling Metaphor | Runs through an entire work and determines form or nature of that work | 35 | |
| 3372554701 | Pun | A play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or surrounding like another word | 36 | |
| 3372554702 | Synecdoche | Part of something is used to signify the whole or whole is used to signify a part | 37 | |
| 3372554703 | Metonymy | Something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it | 38 | |
| 3372554704 | Personification | Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things | 39 | |
| 3372554705 | Apostrophe | An address either to something nonhuman or someone who is absent | 40 | |
| 3372554706 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration of the truth | 41 | |
| 3372554707 | Paradox | A statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but turns out to make sense | 42 | |
| 3372554708 | Understatement | A statement that says less than intended | 43 | |
| 3372554709 | Oxymoron | Condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words used together | 44 | |
| 3372554710 | Symbol | Something that represents something else | 45 | |
| 3372554711 | Conventional Symbol | Something that is recognized by many people to represent certain ideas | 46 | |
| 3372554712 | Contextual Symbol | Can't be summarized in a word or two and tends to be elusive to the experience itself | 47 | |
| 3372554713 | Allegory | A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because an ever represents specific ideas | 48 | |
| 3372554714 | Didantic Poetry | Designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious message | 49 | |
| 3372554801 | Irony | Reveals discrepancy between what appears to be and what actually is true | 50 | |
| 3372554802 | Situational Irony | What happens is entirely different from what is expected | 51 | |
| 3372554803 | Verbal Irony | Saying something different from what is meant | 52 | |
| 3372554804 | Satire | Literary act of ridiculing a folly or vice in effort to expose or correct it | 53 | |
| 3372554805 | Dramatic Irony | Writer allows a reader to know more about a situation than a character does | 54 | |
| 3372554806 | Cosmic Irony | Use of God, destiny, or fate to clash the hopes and experiences of a character | 55 |
