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| 6612397038 | Denotation | Dictionary meanings | 0 | |
| 6612397925 | Connotations | Overtones of the word | 1 | |
| 6612399718 | Imagery | Representation of language of sense experience | 2 | |
| 6612410087 | Figure of speech | Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way | 3 | |
| 6612411976 | Figurative Language | Language using figures of speech | 4 | |
| 6612411977 | Simile | Comparison using like or as | 5 | |
| 6612413274 | Metaphor | Direct comparison | 6 | |
| 6612418342 | Personification | Giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept | 7 | |
| 6612419560 | Apostrophe | Addressing someone absent or dead or someone nonhuman as if that person or thing were present or alive and cold reply to what is being said | 8 | |
| 6612422756 | Synecdoche | The use of the part for the whole | 9 | |
| 6612425838 | Metonymy | The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant | 10 | |
| 6612429091 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is | 11 | |
| 6612430918 | Allegory | A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface | 12 | |
| 6612435964 | Paradox | An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true | 13 | |
| 6612436962 | Overstatement / Hyperbole | Simply exaggeration in the service of truth | 14 | |
| 6612444785 | Understatement | Saying less than one means | 15 | |
| 6612448700 | Irony | Meanings that extend beyond its use merely as a figure of speech | 16 | |
| 6612449542 | Verbal irony | Saying the opposite of what one means | 17 | |
| 6612450264 | Sarcasm | Bitter or cutting speech intended to wound feelings | 18 | |
| 6612451507 | Satire | Ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or at least keeping other people from falling into similar folly or vice | 19 | |
| 6612461548 | Dramatic Irony | Discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means | 20 | |
| 6612466322 | Situational Irony | Discrepancy between actual circumstances and what one anticipates | 21 | |
| 6612474483 | Allusion | A reference to something in history | 22 | |
| 6612484707 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the reader, or himself or herself. | 23 | |
| 6612538073 | Repetition | Repeating, duh | 24 | |
| 6612720405 | Rhythm | Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 25 | |
| 6612721628 | Accented / Stressed | One or more syllables are given more prominence in pronunciation than the test | 26 | |
| 6612723144 | Rhetorical Stresses | Typically used in speech, these are used to make our intentions clear | 27 | |
| 6612724730 | End-Stopped Line | End of a line corresponds with natural pause | 28 | |
| 6612726101 | Run-On Line | Line runs on with no pause | 29 | |
| 6612727072 | Caesuras | Pauses within the middle of a line | 30 | |
| 6612727999 | Free Verse | Basic poetic rhythmic unit | 31 | |
| 6612738281 | Prose Poem | Poem using many rhetorical devices | 32 | |
| 6612741078 | Meter | Verse where accents of language are arranged as to occur at apparently equal intervals of time | 33 | |
| 6612743908 | Foot | Typically one accented syllable and one to two unaccented syllables | 34 | |
| 6612745122 | Metrical Variations | Variations in a metrical pattern; a disruption | 35 | |
| 6612747277 | Substitution | Replacing the regular foot with another | 36 | |
| 6612749826 | Extrametrical Syllables | Adding syllables to the beginning or endings of lines | 37 | |
| 6612753000 | Truncation | The omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line | 38 | |
| 6612757278 | Blank Verse | Iambic pentameter, unrhymed | 39 | |
| 6612759539 | Syllabic Verse | Counting of the number of syllables per line | 40 | |
| 6612766165 | Phonetic Intensives | The words sound somehow connects to the meaning | 41 | |
| 6612773553 | Euphony | Using pleasant sounding words | 42 | |
| 6612775960 | Cacophony | Using harsh sounding words | 43 | |
| 6612808492 | Structure / Form | External pattern to provide shape | 44 | |
| 6612810608 | Continuous Form | Slight element of design; free structure | 45 | |
| 6612811751 | Stanzaic Form | Use of stanzas, which are repeated units having the same number of lines, same metrical pattern, and often use identical rhyme | 46 | |
| 6612814378 | Fixed Form | A traditional form of poetry | 47 | |
| 6612815137 | Sonnet | Fixed form of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter | 48 | |
| 6612817934 | Italian Sonnet | Divided by octave (rhymed abbaabba) and a sestet (rhymed cdcdc OR cdecde) | 49 | |
| 6612820242 | English Sonnet | Divided by 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet (rhymed abab cdcd efef gg) | 50 |
