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| 8050751268 | Ballad | Popular narrative song passed down orally. Follows a form of rhymed (ABCB) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. Folk ballads are anonymous and recount tragic, comic, or heroic stories. | 0 | |
| 8050751269 | Blank Verse | Unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse | 1 | |
| 8050751270 | Elegy | Often a melancholy poem (deals with death) that laments its subject's death but ends in consolation | 2 | |
| 8050751271 | Epic | Long poem, typically derived from oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures | 3 | |
| 8050751272 | Free Verse | Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound of rhythm may emerge in free verse lines, but the poet does not adhere t a metrical plan in their composition | 4 | |
| 8050751273 | Lyric | a short poem of songlike quality that is also very personal | 5 | |
| 8050751274 | Narrative | Poetry that has a plot. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long | 6 | |
| 8050751275 | Ode | Formal often ceremonious lyric poem tat addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing or idea. Stanza forms vary | 7 | |
| 8050751276 | Pastoral | Poets writing in English drew on the pastoral tradition by retreating from the trappings of modernity to the imagined virtues and romance of rural life. Its themes persist in poems that romanticize rural life or reappraise the natural world. | 8 | |
| 8050751277 | Sonnet | A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme. Literally a "little song," the sonnet traditionally reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or "turn" of thought in its concluding lines. | 9 | |
| 8050751278 | Verse | single metrical line in a poetic composition | 10 | |
| 8050751279 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants | 11 | |
| 8050751280 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. | 12 | |
| 8050751281 | Caesura | pause near the middle of a line | 13 | |
| 8050751282 | Conceit | An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor, in which one's lover, say, is compared to a ship, a planet, etc. The comparison may be brief or extended | 14 | |
| 8050751283 | Couplet | A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length | 15 | |
| 8050751284 | Enjambment | In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them | 16 | |
| 8050751285 | Envoy | short closing stanza in certain verse forms summarizing its main ideas | 17 | |
| 8050751286 | Female Rhyme | similarity in sound between the last two syllables of a word or verse; occurs in a final unstressed syllable: pleasure/leisure, longing/yearning | 18 | |
| 8050751287 | Foot | Unit of metrical pattern in poetry; The five most common types of foot in English poetry are iamb (v -), trochee (- v), dactyl (- vv), spondee ( -- ), and anapest (vv -); the symbol v stands for an unstressed syllable and - for a stressed one. | 19 | |
| 8050751288 | Iamb | metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. | 20 | |
| 8050751289 | Iambic Pentameter | rhythmical pattern of syllables. The iambic part means that the rhythm goes from an unstressed syllable to a stressed one, as happens in words like divine, caress, bizarre, and delight. It sounds sort of like a heartbeat: daDUM, daDUM, daDUM. Each iambic unit is called a foot (the term foot is also applied to other rhythmical units, such as trochaic [DUMda], dactyllic [DUMdada], and anapestic [dadaDUM]). The pentameter part means that this iambic rhythm is repeated five times, or has five feet: daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM[da] | 21 | |
| 8050751290 | Meter | exact arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line | 22 | |
| 8050751291 | Dimeter | two feet | 23 | |
| 8050751292 | Trimeter | three feet | 24 | |
| 8050751293 | tetrameter | four feet | 25 | |
| 8050751294 | pentameter | five feet | 26 | |
| 8050751295 | hexameter | six feet | 27 | |
| 8050751296 | hepatmeter | seven feet | 28 | |
| 8050751297 | octameter | eight feet | 29 | |
| 8050751298 | Mood | The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of the descriptions. A work may contain a mood of horror, mystery, holiness, or childlike simplicity, to name a few, depending on the author's treatment of the work. Not to be confused with tone, which is one quality of a speaker or narrator's voice. | 30 | |
| 8050751299 | Refrain | A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza. | 31 | |
| 8050751300 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyme used in a poem, generally indicated by matching lowercase letters to show which lines rhyme. | 32 | |
| 8050751301 | Stanza | two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story | 33 | |
| 8050751302 | Stress | emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm | 34 | |
| 8050751303 | Tone | The author or narrator's attitude toward the subject and/or the readers, expressed primarily through his or her tone of voice | 35 | |
| 8050751304 | Quatrain | Stanzas of four lines which can be written in any rhyme scheme | 36 | |
| 8050751305 | End-stopped | A term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause | 37 | |
| 8050751306 | explication | The interpretation or analysis of a text | 38 | |
| 8050751307 | heroic couplet | Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse | 39 | |
| 8050751308 | idyll | a lyric poem or passage that describes an ideal life or place. | 40 | |
| 8050751309 | light verse | a variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, but sometimes with a satirical thrust. | 41 | |
| 8050751310 | ottava rima | an eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem | 42 | |
| 8050751311 | prosody | the grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry | 43 | |
| 8050751312 | quatrain | a four -line poem or a four-line unit of poetry | 44 | |
| 8050751313 | versification | The structural form of a line of verse as revealed by the number of feet it contains | 45 | |
| 8050751314 | aubade | a poem about morning | 46 | |
| 8050751315 | Synesthesia | the perception or description of one kind of a sense in words usually to describe a different sense. | 47 |
