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| 199466096 | alliteration | the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. | |
| 199466097 | allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history. | |
| 199466098 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable. | |
| 199466099 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. | |
| 199466100 | approximate rhyme | a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. | |
| 199466101 | assonance | the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words. | |
| 199466102 | aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn. | |
| 199466103 | ballad | a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form. | |
| 199466104 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. | |
| 199466105 | caesura | a speech pause occuring within a line. | |
| 199466106 | consonance | the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of acented syllables or important words. | |
| 199466107 | continuous form | that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning. | |
| 199466108 | couplet | two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme. | |
| 199466109 | dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. | |
| 199466110 | denotation | the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. | |
| 199466111 | dimeter | a metrical line containing two feet. | |
| 199466112 | double rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated vowels is in the second last syllable of the words involved; one form of feminine rhyme. | |
| 199466113 | elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. | |
| 199466114 | end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the ends of the lines. | |
| 199466115 | end-stopped line | a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation. | |
| 199466116 | English sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line. | |
| 199466117 | Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line. | |
| 199466118 | enjambement | the running over of a sentence from one line of verse into the next. | |
| 199466119 | extended figure | a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem. | |
| 199466120 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved. | |
| 199466121 | figurative language | language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally. | |
| 199466122 | foot | the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse. | |
| 199466123 | form | the extended pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content. | |
| 199466124 | free verse | nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythmic unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms. | |
| 199466125 | hexameter | a metrical line containing six feet. | |
| 199466126 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth. | |
| 199466127 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable. | |
| 199466128 | imagery | the representation through language of sense experience. | |
| 199466129 | internal rhyme | a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occur within the line. | |
| 199466130 | irony | a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. | |
| 199466131 | verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said. | |
| 199466132 | dramatic irony | a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work. | |
| 199466133 | irony of situation | a situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass. | |
| 199466134 | Italian sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde. | |
| 199466135 | Petrarchan sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde. | |
| 199466136 | lyric poetry | a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry. | |
| 199466137 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is the final syllable of the words involved. | |
| 199466138 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. | |
| 199466139 | meter | the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. | |
| 199466140 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. | |
| 199466141 | monometer | a metrical line containing one foot. | |
| 199466142 | octave | an eight-line stanza OR the first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet. | |
| 199466143 | ode | a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. | |
| 199466144 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound. | |
| 199466145 | oxymoron | a compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other. | |
| 199466146 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements. | |
| 199466147 | pentameter | a metrical line containing five feet. | |
| 199466148 | personification | a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept. | |
| 199466149 | prose poem | usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse. | |
| 199466150 | quatrain | a four-line stanza OR a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme. | |
| 199466151 | refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form. | |
| 199466152 | rhetorical pause | a natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax. | |
| 199466153 | rhetorical poetry | poetry using artificially eloquent language; that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience. | |
| 199466154 | rhyme scheme | any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas. | |
| 199466155 | run-on line | a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line. | |
| 199466156 | scansion | the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern. | |
| 199466157 | sestet | a six-line stanza OR the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model. | |
| 199466158 | simile | a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. | |
| 199466159 | single rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved; a type of masculine rhyme | |
| 199466160 | spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented. | |
| 199466161 | stanza | a group of lines whose metrical patter is repeated throughout the poem. | |
| 199466162 | structure | the internal organization of a poem's content. | |
| 199466163 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. | |
| 199466164 | synesthesia | presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation. | |
| 199466165 | tercet | a three-line stanza exhibited in terza rima and villanelle as well as in other poetic forms. | |
| 199466166 | terza rima | an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc. | |
| 199466167 | tetrameter | a metrical line containing four feet. | |
| 199466168 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning of a work. | |
| 199466169 | trimeter | a metrical line containing three feet. | |
| 199466170 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable. | |
| 199466171 | understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants. | |
| 199466172 | villanelle | a nineteen-line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhymed abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in an alternating pattern through line 15 and then repeated as lines 18 and 19. |
