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| 12491928829 | Antithesis | Contrasting words, clauses or sentences put together; "Man proposes, God disposes" | 0 | |
| 12491928830 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | 1 | |
| 12491928831 | Ballad Meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 2 | |
| 12491928832 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 12491928833 | cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 4 | |
| 12491928834 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 5 | |
| 12491928835 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 6 | |
| 12491928836 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 7 | |
| 12491928837 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 8 | |
| 12491928838 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 9 | |
| 12491928839 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson | 10 | |
| 12491928840 | dramatic poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends | 11 | |
| 12492083063 | elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. Examples include Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam; and Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." | 12 | |
| 12492083064 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end- stopped lines. True ease in writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. | 13 | |
| 12492083065 | enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. Milton's Paradise Lost is notable for its use of enjambment, as seen in the following lines: . . . .Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God, . . . . | 14 | |
| 12492083066 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. In "The Bait," John Donne compares a beautiful woman to fish bait and men to fish who want to be caught by the woman. Since he carries these comparisons all the way through the poem, these are considered "extended metaphors." | 15 | |
| 12492083067 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. Its opposite is cacophony. The following lines from John Keats' Endymion are euphonious: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. | 16 | |
| 12492083068 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation. Examples include "watch" and "match," and "love" and "move." | 17 | |
| 12492083069 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition." Feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme. | 18 | |
| 12492083070 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. See the following example from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock: But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! | 19 | |
| 12492083071 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words. Examples include "keep" and "sleep," "glow" and "no," and "spell" and "impel." | 20 | |
| 12492083072 | metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. In this way we commonly speak of the king as the "crown," an object closely associated with kingship. | 21 | |
| 12492083073 | mixed metaphor | the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous. Lloyd George is reported to have said, "I smell a rat. I see it floating in the air. I shall nip it in the bud." | 22 | |
| 12492083074 | parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry. Parallelism is characteristic of Asian poetry, being notably present in the Psalms, and it seems to be the controlling principle of the poetry of Walt Whitman, as in the following lines: . . . .Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them. Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. | 23 | |
| 12492083075 | poetic foot | a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it. | 24 | |
| 12492083076 | rhyme royal | A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets. | 25 | |
| 12492083077 | scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line. | 26 | |
| 12492083078 | sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The conventional Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; the English, or Shakespearean, sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 27 | |
| 12492083079 | strategy (or rhetorical strategy) | the management of language for a specific effect. The strategy or rhetorical strategy of a poem is the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect. The rhetorical strategy of most love poems is deployed to convince the loved one to return to the speaker's love. By appealing to the loved one's sympathy, or by flattery, or by threat, the lover attempts to persuade the loved one to love in return. | 28 | |
| 12492083080 | synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. For example, we refer to "foot soldiers" for infantry and "field hands" for manual laborers who work in agriculture. | 29 | |
| 12492083081 | villanelle | a 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. | 30 |
